Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride. — Louis-Philippe I of France Copy Share Image
A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner? — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban… — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that… — Francis Cornford Copy Share Image
Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality. — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Urban planning and design are helping us to shift from a car-centric system to a bike-centric one by making bicycles and bicycle… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the… — Frank Lloyd Wright 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
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and… — John Prebble Copy Share Image
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I like to say I had a very varied undergraduate education. I was an English major first, and then at the end… — Ayana Mathis 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
“the presence of buildings around a park is important in design. They enclose it. They make a definite shape out of the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same… — Zaha Hadid 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
“It is not, of course, only the Japanese who find flat sterile surfaces attractive and kirei. Foreign observers, too, are seduced by… — Alex Kerr Copy Share Image
Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
“Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“Too often critics have taken as the sole and crucial matter of fantasy the preoccupation of Tolkien, the quest for a remedy… — Roz Kaveney Copy Share Image
“Consequently, a wide variety of perspectives and frameworks have been developed for trying to understand what cities are, how they arose, how… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. — Socrates Copy Share Image
In traditional cities like Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, nature was a very important part of urban planning - not only as a… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure.… — Richard Carson Copy Share Image
“Ahhh, God's balls! The Horrible Halt!" Adoulla pronounced the Dhamsawaati term for the complete standstill of traffic with a familiar disgust.” — Saladin Ahmed Copy Share Image
Urban planning should be done with the mindset that we are determining the city's fabric for 100 years to come. — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
“A young, beautiful mayor’s with high-powered plans for the city of Compton must put them aside to become a sleuth to solve… — Martha Tucker Copy Share Image
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