Nobody strolled and laughed on the sidewalks as relaxing…

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…

— Ray Bradbury

The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities…

— Horace Bushnell

“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the…

— Anonymous

In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

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

When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework.…

— Frank Gehry

“Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the safety of…

— Jane Jacobs

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

— Le Corbusier

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads…

— Jane Jacobs

The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever…

— Martin Filler

“A democracy is understandably boisterous and subject to the prevailing social and economic whims of the nation’s bulging populous. Politics based upon mass appeal…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary,…

— Murray Bookchin

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the…

— Jane Jacobs

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

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

— Richard Rogers