Ocupation: Journalist
Life: May 4, 1916 - April 25, 2006
Birthday: May 4
Death: April 25
The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. This is a lesson no one learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibility to you take a modicum of responsibility for you.
source: Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.82, Vintage
topic: Responsibility, Successful, Cities, Close Friendship, City Life