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observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.
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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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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To seek causes of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.
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A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.
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Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.
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I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have.
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Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become possible, because they would have more authority. They would have the same authority as a province now.
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In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
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There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans, probably the world's champion sentimentalizers about nature, are at one and the same time probably the world's most voracious and disrespectful destroyers of wild and rural countryside.
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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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[If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would become the second level.
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