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as quoted in the New York Times (May 31, 1993)The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)

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But look what we have built ... low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.... Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums.... Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs (b. 1916), U.S. author. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, introduction (1961).

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