Jane Addams Cities Quotations

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.