[RP TownTalk] Jane Jacobs (and others) on Riverdale Park's Town Center

[David Hiles]

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You can't rely on bringing people downtown; you have to put them there.
(Jane Jacobs)

I never said that government was messing around too much in our lives. 
I said it was doing stupid things.
That's not the same thing at all. It may be doing too little in our 
lives and still be doing stupid things. It's not an ideological thing.
(Jane Jacobs)

Margaret Dumont: Mr. Driftwood, six months ago I hired you to get me 
into the highest New York society. Since then all you've done is 
collect a handsome salary.
Groucho: (shocked) You call that all?

In 1860, the capital city of Washington, with a population of 60,000, 
had unlighted streets, open sewers, and pigs roaming about its 
principal avenues.
This condition was worse than the worst of our current cities. There is 
hope.
(Andres Duany)

Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: 
first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), 
finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey).
(Bill Kraus)

The American city should be a collection of communities where every 
member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man 
feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be 
a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is 
strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should 
be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which 
comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man 
sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.
(Lyndon B. Johnson)

When I become president, all you ***** that ride bikes in the city? 
Lock and load! You're going down!
(Denis Leary, Lock 'N Load (1997))

Remember folks, street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 
mph.
(Jim Samuels)


WE are who we have been waiting for.
http://riverdalepark.blogspot.com/