“Nobody strolled and laughed on the sidewalks as relaxing burghers would in sweet, mellow, rotting Europe.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.” — M. Ageyev Copy Share Image
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished. — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“My secretary at one point said, ‘Somebody wants to write a musical about city planning,’ ” Burden recalled. “I said, ‘That has to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“The city planning profession’s historic concern with the physical environment has warped its ability to see physical structures and land as servants… — Paul Davidoff Copy Share Image
When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“That’s Manhattan today—all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A democracy is understandably boisterous and subject to the prevailing social and economic whims of the nation’s bulging populous. Politics based upon… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
