Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Everybody's got a worldview, whether they know they have it or they don't. They might even get it when they are little tiny kids. Suppose they get it when they are in college, which is often the case, or in high school, whatever. Everything they learn after that or every thing they see after that, they fit it into that worldview. And they are making coherence of what's good, what's bad, what will work, what won't work, what's noble, what's ignoble, and so on... all through this filter.

Jane Jacobs's Popular Quotes

The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. T…

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The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically)…

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There is no new world that you make without the old world.

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Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new ideas of any …

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Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

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While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

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Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

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The Victorian house and lots of other buildings weren't oppressive in themselves. They were often very airy and gingerbready and fancy. But they were…

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There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

- Jane Jacobs