Frases de Jane Jacobs

Jane Butzner Jacobs fue una divulgadora científica, teórica del urbanismo y activista sociopolítica canadiense, nacida en Estados Unidos. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. mayo 1916 – 25. abril 2006
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Frases célebres de Jane Jacobs

“Cuando la gente dice que una ciudad o que una parte de la misma es peligrosa o una jungla, quiere decir principalmente que no se siente segura en sus aceras.”

Fuente: Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. (Edición original publicada por Random House, Inc., Nueva York. Traducción española de Ángel Abad, Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades. 2. edición 1973 (1. ed. 1967), ) Ediciones Península, Madrid.

“Los centros comerciales monopolistas y esos otros centros culturales monumentales ocultan, bajo el artificio de las relaciones públicas, una verdadera substracción de substancia comercial y cultural que antes constituía lo más familiar y normal en la vida de las ciudades.”

Fuente: Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. (Edición original publicada por Random House, Inc., Nueva York. Traducción española de Ángel Abad, Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades. 2. edición 1973 (1. ed. 1967), ) Ediciones Península, Madrid.

“Echemos una ojeada a lo que hemos construido con los primeros miles de millones que tuvimos a nuestra disposición: los barrios de viviendas baratas se han convertido en los peores centros de delincuencia, vandalismo y desesperanza social general, mucho peores que los viejos barrios bajos que intentábamos eliminar; los proyectos de construcción de grupos de viviendas de renta media -auténticas maravillas de monotonía y regimentalización- sellaron a cal y canto las perspectivas de una vida ciudadana llena de vitalidad y dinamismo; los barrios residenciales de lujo, que teóricamente debían mitigar la sordidez de las ciudades, o intentarlo al menos, son hoy escaparates de una insípida vulgaridad; y no hablemos de los centros culturales, en los cuales es difícil encontrar una buena biblioteca; o los centros cívico-recreativos, cuidadosamente evitados por todo el mundo a excepción de los vividores de rigor, esos que no tienen tantos remilgos como los demás para escoger sus lugares de esparcimiento; amén de los centros comerciales imitación sin lustre de los supermercados suburbiales y de todos esos paseos que no vienen de ningún sitio y no van a ninguna parte, pero que tampoco exhiben a ningún paseante; y esas autopistas que destripan las grandes ciudades… Esto no es reordenar las ciudades. Esto es, simplemente, saquearlas.”

Fuente: Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. (Edición original publicada por Random House, Inc., Nueva York. Traducción española de Ángel Abad, Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades. 2. edición 1973 (1. ed. 1967), ) Ediciones Península, Madrid.

Jane Jacobs: Frases en inglés

“I did have an inkling that I was going to be a writer. That was my intention.”

Interview in Toronto Canada (6 September 2000), by Jim Kunstler, Metropolis Magazine (March 2001)

“I was brought up to believe that there is no virtue in conforming meekly to the dominant opinion of the moment.”

Political questionnaire response (1952)
Contexto: I was brought up to believe that there is no virtue in conforming meekly to the dominant opinion of the moment. I was encouraged to believe that simple conformity results in stagnation for a society, and that American progress has been largely owing to the opportunity for experimentation, the leeway given initiative, and to a gusto and a freedom for chewing over odd ideas.

“Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best — most responsibly and responsively — when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses.”

Jane Jacobs libro Dark Age Ahead

Fuente: Dark Age Ahead (2004), Chapter Five, Dumb-Down Taxes, p. 103
Contexto: Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best — most responsibly and responsively — when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

“I was taught that the American's right to be a free individual, not at the mercy of the state, was hard-won and that its price was eternal vigilance, that I too would have to be vigilant.”

Political questionnaire response (1952)
Contexto: I was taught that the American's right to be a free individual, not at the mercy of the state, was hard-won and that its price was eternal vigilance, that I too would have to be vigilant. I was made to feel that it would be a disgrace to me, as an individual, if I should not value or should give up rights that were dearly bought. I am grateful for that upbringing.

“I do not agree with the extremists of either the left or the right, but I think they should be allowed to speak and to publish, both because they themselves have, and ought to have, rights, and once their rights are gone, the rights of the rest of us are hardly safe. Extremists typically want to squash not only those who disagree with them diametrically, but those who disagree with them at all.”

Political questionnaire response (1952)
Contexto: The other threat to the security of our tradition, I believe, lies at home. It is the current fear of radical ideas and of people who propound them. I do not agree with the extremists of either the left or the right, but I think they should be allowed to speak and to publish, both because they themselves have, and ought to have, rights, and once their rights are gone, the rights of the rest of us are hardly safe. Extremists typically want to squash not only those who disagree with them diametrically, but those who disagree with them at all. It seems to me that in every country where extremists of the left have gotten sufficiently in the saddle to squash the extremists of the right, they have ridden on to squash the center or terrorize it also. And the same goes for extremists of the right. I do not want that to happen in our country.

“This is both a gloomy and a hopeful book.”

Jane Jacobs libro Dark Age Ahead

Fuente: Dark Age Ahead (2004), Chapter One, The Hazard, p. 3
Contexto: This is both a gloomy and a hopeful book.
The subject itself is gloomy. A Dark Age is a culture's dead end. We in North America and Western Europe, enjoying the many benefits of the culture conventionally known as the West, customarily think of a Dark Age as happening once, long ago, following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. But in North America we live in a graveyard of lost aboriginal cultures, many of which were decisively finished off by mass amnesia in which even the memory of what was lost was also lost. Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.

“But in North America we live in a graveyard of lost aboriginal cultures, many of which were decisively finished off by mass amnesia in which even the memory of what was lost was also lost.”

Jane Jacobs libro Dark Age Ahead

Fuente: Dark Age Ahead (2004), Chapter One, The Hazard, p. 3
Contexto: This is both a gloomy and a hopeful book.
The subject itself is gloomy. A Dark Age is a culture's dead end. We in North America and Western Europe, enjoying the many benefits of the culture conventionally known as the West, customarily think of a Dark Age as happening once, long ago, following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. But in North America we live in a graveyard of lost aboriginal cultures, many of which were decisively finished off by mass amnesia in which even the memory of what was lost was also lost. Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.

“I had put a nickel in and just invested something.”

Interview in Toronto Canada (6 September 2000), by Jim Kunstler, Metropolis Magazine (March 2001) http://www.kunstler.com/mags_jacobs1.htm
Contexto: I would spend a nickel on the subway and go arbitrarily to some other stop and look around there. So I was roaming the city in the afternoons and applying for jobs in the morning. And one day I found myself in a neighborhood I just liked so much…it was one of those times I had put a nickel in and just invested something. And where did I get out? I just liked the sound of the name: Christopher Street — so I got out at Christopher Street, and I was enchanted with this neighborhood, and walked around it all afternoon and then I rushed back to Brooklyn. And I said, "Betty I found out where we have to live."

“I would spend a nickel on the subway and go arbitrarily to some other stop and look around there.”

Interview in Toronto Canada (6 September 2000), by Jim Kunstler, Metropolis Magazine (March 2001) http://www.kunstler.com/mags_jacobs1.htm
Contexto: I would spend a nickel on the subway and go arbitrarily to some other stop and look around there. So I was roaming the city in the afternoons and applying for jobs in the morning. And one day I found myself in a neighborhood I just liked so much…it was one of those times I had put a nickel in and just invested something. And where did I get out? I just liked the sound of the name: Christopher Street — so I got out at Christopher Street, and I was enchanted with this neighborhood, and walked around it all afternoon and then I rushed back to Brooklyn. And I said, "Betty I found out where we have to live."

“Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.”

Jane Jacobs libro Dark Age Ahead

Fuente: Dark Age Ahead (2004), Chapter Three, Credentialing Versus Educating, p. 44

“Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.”

Jane Jacobs libro Dark Age Ahead

Fuente: Dark Age Ahead (2004), Chapter Seven, Unwinding Vicious Spirals, p. 159

“In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.”

Jane Jacobs libro Dark Age Ahead

Fuente: Dark Age Ahead (2004), Chapter Seven, Unwinding Vicious Spirals, p. 153

“A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.”

Jane Jacobs libro Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades

Fuente: The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), p. 410

“Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.”

Jane Jacobs libro Dark Age Ahead

Fuente: Dark Age Ahead (2004), Chapter One, The Hazard, p. 5

“To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.”

Jane Jacobs libro Dark Age Ahead

Fuente: Dark Age Ahead (2004), Chapter Four, Science Abandoned, p. 64-65

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