Jane Jacobs Ideas Quotations

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

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.

New ideas often need old buildings.

New ideas must use old buildings

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.