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Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.
Jane Jacobs
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Jane Jacobs
Age: 89 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 4
Died: 2006
Died: April 25
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Economist
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Scranton
Pennsylvania
Jane Butzner
Jane Butzner Jacobs
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I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.
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People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.
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There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.
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Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.
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Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.
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It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.
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Privately run jails are a mark of American reinvented government that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in Canada.
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The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.
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What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia. What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable. The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.
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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.
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When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities: a city cannot be a work of art.
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One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.
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You don't get new products and services out of sameness.
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Some of the large [municipalities] in Quebec can contain within them most of the answers to their own practical problems. And so lots of different possibilities for doing things in a practical and different way become available.
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Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.
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I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just as real as Canada. It's a self-centeredness that's a very strange thing.
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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.
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People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.
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