Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jane Jacobs (Canadian Urbanologist)

Jane Jacobs (1916–2006,) née Jane Butzner, was an American-born Canadian urbanologist and social activist noted for her precise and original observations on urban life and its problems.

Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Butzner worked for The Scranton Tribune. She relocated to New York City in 1934, where she studied zoology, geology, and political science at Columbia and wrote for various newspapers and magazines.

As a neighborhood activist, Jacobs investigated urban design and planning at length with her architect-husband, Robert Jacobs. Her Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) is a brash and intense reinterpretation of modern urban places’ multiple needs.

Jacobs’s The Economy of Cities (1969) addresses the significance of diversity to a city’s prosperity. Her other works include Cities and the Wealth of Nations (1984) and The Nature of Economies (2000.) Dark Age Ahead (2004) is focused on the decline of American culture.

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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 that is struggling to exist and to be served.
Jane Jacobs
Topics: Order, Disorder

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.
Jane Jacobs

You can’t prescribe decently for something you hate. It will always come out wrong. You can’t prescribe decently for something you despair in. If you despair of humankind, you’re not going to have good policies for nurturing human beings. I think people ought to give prescriptions who have ideas for improving things, ought to concentrate on the things that they love and that they want to nurture.
Jane Jacobs

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.
Jane Jacobs

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.
Jane Jacobs

The primary economic conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are with the emergence of new economic activities.
Jane Jacobs

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.
Jane Jacobs

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