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Explore our hand-picked selection of 148 inspiring quotes by Jane Jacobs.

About Jane Jacobs

  • Born: May 4, 1916
  • Died: April 25, 2006
  • Occupation: Journalist
    • Throughout the world dark ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.
    Dark Past Age
    Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.
    Squares Density Today
    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.
    Fashion Lying Dwelling
    Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
    Sentimentality
    The best part of a reg hartt presentation is what he has to say.
    Presentation
    Privately run jails are a mark of american "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in canada.
    Running Government Jail
    Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.
    Past Culture Foxes
    Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century." this happened before the first world war and it wasn't just the soldiers. you can see it happening if you read the bloomsbury biographies. it was a reaction to a great extent against victorianism. there was so much that was repressive and stuffy. victorian buildings were associated with it, and they were regarded as very ugly. even when they weren't ugly, people made them ugly. they were painted hideously.
    War Ideas People
    Reactions [on my 1979 massey lectures] were from anglophones. i'm one. but i'm terrible at french. in fact, there was practically no reaction.
    Lectures Facts Reactions
    My husband was a hospital architect and he was working on some hospitals in alberta, and i told him to try to find out what they thought about separatism. he would come back on weekends. he said "well, i think i found out how they feel about separatism. i brought it up at lunch in the cafeteria, and everybody at the table was silent and then somebody said 'let's change the subject'."
    Husband Weekend Thinking
    Everybody's got a worldview, whether they know they have it or they don't. they might even get it when they are little tiny kids. suppose they get it when they are in college, which is often the case, or in high school, whatever. everything they learn after that or every thing they see after that, they fit it into that worldview. and they are making coherence of what's good, what's bad, what will work, what won't work, what's noble, what's ignoble, and so on... all through this filter.
    School Kids College
    The best thing is not to think about [separatism]. [people in alberta] don't even want to engage in talking pros and cons and why people feel this way.
    Thinking Talking People
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