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Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) American-Canadian journalist, author, urban theorist, activist
“Downtown Is for People,” Fortune (1958-04)
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Closing words of the essay.

Originally reprinted in the magazine's topical collection, The Exploding Metropolis (1958). Later collected in Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring, eds., Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs (2016). ]]> https://wist.info/jacobs-jane/69029/feed/ 0 69029 https://wist.info/bergson-henri-louis/38996/ https://wist.info/bergson-henri-louis/38996/#respond Tue, 27 Nov 2018 01:39:59 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=38996 For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941) French philosopher
Creative Evolution, ch. 1 (1907) [tr. Mitchell (1911)]
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