One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if they were the same kind of creature, with the same kinds of possibilities.
Jane JacobsThe notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.
Jane JacobsCities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
Jane JacobsArtists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.
Jane Jacobs