Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs OC OOntwas an American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist best known for her influence on urban studies. Her influential book The Death and Life of Great American Citiesargued that urban renewal did not respect the needs of most city-dwellers. The book also introduced sociological concepts such as "eyes on the street" and "social capital"...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1916
CityScranton, PA
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Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
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There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans, probably the world's champion sentimentalizers about nature, are at one and the same time probably the world's most voracious and disrespectful destroyers of wild and rural countryside.
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New ideas often need old buildings.
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New ideas must use old buildings
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All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.
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The port authority is the single greatest impediment to a revitalized waterfront.
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Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.
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Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.
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Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.
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Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.
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Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
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The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.
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There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.
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One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.