American - Sociologist | May 1, 1916 - April 25, 2006
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
Jane Jacobs
NatureEverythingSentimentality
The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.
ChoicePointMultiplicityCities
Design is people.
PeopleDesign
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
QualityMaskRealOrderIgnoring
Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.
MenYouthIntellectualOldJust
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