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 …

- Jane Jacobs

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

- Jane Jacobs

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…

- Jane Jacobs

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

- Jane Jacobs

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.

- Jane Jacobs

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

- Jane Jacobs

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…

- Jane Jacobs

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

- Jane Jacobs

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