Jane Jacobs Quotes About Economy

Quotes about: Economy

• Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Creative, Together

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs”, p.243, Random House

• Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

  Jane Jacobs

  Business, Successful, Errors

• Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

  Jane Jacobs

  Add, Definitions, Kind

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Economy of Cities”, p.49, Vintage

• Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I urge Torontonians to close down this dangerous Trojan horse and get on with planning constructive and delightful ways of using our magnificent lakeside assets.

  Jane Jacobs

  Horse, Islands, Airports

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