There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie…

...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.

— Jane Jacobs

“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 are thought…

— Jane Jacobs

“the presence of buildings around a park is important in design. They enclose it. They make a definite shape out of the space, so…

— Jane Jacobs

“Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the…

— Jane Jacobs

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way…

— Rem Koolhaas

A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan…

— Richard Carson

“Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Ahhh, God's balls! The Horrible Halt!" Adoulla pronounced the Dhamsawaati term for the complete standstill of traffic with a familiar disgust.”

— Saladin Ahmed

If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

— William J. Brennan

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

— Winston Churchill

There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

— Will Rogers

Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that [Buckminster] Fuller…

— Jonathon Keats

In traditional cities like Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, nature was a very important part of urban planning - not only as a landscape but…

— Ma Yansong

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

— Kenzo Tange

I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in…

— William O. Douglas