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Brendan Boyle • Spain's fix for a lonely planet
Jane Jacobs’s Death and Life of Great American Cities
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
When humble people, doing lowly work, are not also solving problems, nobody is apt to solve humble problems.
Jane Jacobs • The Economy of Cities
Neighborhoods in cities need not supply for their people an artificial town or village life, and to aim at this is both silly and destructive. But neighborhoods in cities do need to supply some means for civilized self-government.
Jane Jacobs • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
No neighborhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled, and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout the necessity for spreading people through time of day without frustrating its potential for generating diversity. Furthermore, a neighborhood or district perfectly calculated, it seems, to fill o
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“A neighbourhood is not only an association of buildings but also a network of social relationships, an environment where the feelings and the sympathy can flourish.” -
Jane Jacobs
Alexi Gunner • idle gaze 002: Community thrives through bustling neighbourhoods and casual chatter.
When we isolate parts of cities, we miss the many interconnected functions they perform.
Jane Jacobs
