This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.Jane Jacobs
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody.Jane Jacobs
When people say that a city without its old buildings is like a man without his memories, they’re right.Jane Jacobs
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place.Jane Jacobs
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order.Jane Jacobs
By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.Jane Jacobs
Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.Jane Jacobs
The look of things and the way they work are inextricably bound together, and in no place more so than cities.Jane Jacobs
A good city street neighborhood achieves a marvel of balance between its people’s determination to have essential privacy and their simultaneous wishes for differing degrees of contact.Jane Jacobs
A city cannot be a work of art.Jane Jacobs
You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.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