People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.
Jane Jacobs...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.
Jane JacobsI think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.
Jane JacobsThat the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible. They operate on the premise that city people seek the sight of emptiness, obvious order and quiet. Nothing could be less true. The presences of great numbers of people gathered together in cities should not only be frankly accepted as a physical fact... they should also be enjoyed as an asset and their presence celebrated.
Jane Jacobs