Jane Jacobs Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, People, Giving

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.111, Vintage

• Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.

  Jane Jacobs

  Writing, Giving, Culture

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.5, Vintage

• It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so.

  Jane Jacobs

  Thinking, Cities, People

  "The Death and Life of Great American Cities". Book by Jane Jacobs, p. 71, 1961.

• Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have passed a judgment, the gist of which is: "This is deplorable! If these people had decent homes and a more private or bosky outdoor place, they wouldn't be on the street!" That judgment represents a profound misunderstanding of cities. It makes no more sense than to drop in at a testimonial banquet in a hotel and conclude that if these people had wives who could cook, they would give their parties at home.

  Jane Jacobs

  Party, Drinking, Home

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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