Jane Jacobs
“A metropolitan economy, if it is working well, is constantly transforming many poor people into middle-class people.”
“Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.”
“The trust of a city street is formed over time from many, many little public sidewalk contacts.”
“There must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to the natural proprietors of the street.”
“Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.”
“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.”
“New ideas must use old buildings.”
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”