That The Sight Of People Attracts Still Other People, Is Something That City Planners And City Architectural Designers Seem To Find Incomprehensible. They Operate On The Premise That City People Seek The Sight Of Emptiness, Obvious Order And Quiet. Nothing Could Be Less True. The Presences Of Great Numbers Of People Gathered Together In Cities Should Not Only Be Frankly Accepted As A Physical Fact... They Should Also Be Enjoyed As An Asset And Their Presence Celebrated.

-Jane Jacobs

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That The Sight Of People Attracts Still

Jane Jacobs

That The Sight Of People Attracts Still Other People, Is Something That City Planners And City Architectural Designers Seem To Find Incomprehensible. They Operate On The Premise That City People Seek The Sight Of Emptiness, Obvious Order And Quiet. Nothing Could Be Less True. The Presences Of Great Numbers Of People Gathered Together In Cities Should Not Only Be Frankly Accepted As A Physical Fact... They Should Also Be Enjoyed As An Asset And Their Presence Celebrated.

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Order

Cities

Numbers

The First Fundamental Of Successful City Life: People Must Take A Modicum Of Responsibility For Each Other Even If They Have No Ties To Each Other. This Is A Lesson No One Learns By Being Told. It Is Learned From The Experience Of Having Other People Without Ties Of Kinship Or Close Friendship Or Formal Responsibility To You Take A Modicum Of Responsibility For You.

Responsibility

Successful

Cities