Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.
Jane JacobsAs in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.
Jane Jacobsobservation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.
Jane JacobsThe 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. This is a lesson no one learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibility to you take a modicum of responsibility for you.
Jane Jacobs