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Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.

Jane Jacobs's Popular Quotes

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

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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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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 new world that you make without the old world.

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

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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.

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