Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration. — Jeffrey Zeldman Copy Share Image
The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“Timothy Beatley in Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning (2011)” — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride. — Louis-Philippe I of France Copy Share Image
The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts… — Bill Hillier 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
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed by planners into narrow and often dangerous spaces - the afterthoughts of urban design. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“Abstractionism exacerbated the problem but sustainability, if intelligently conceived, could heal the rift between garden, landscape and urban design. Absolute sustainability is… — Tom Turner 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
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
As the world's 'most dynamic' cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer.… — Robert Hormats Copy Share Image
“One of the most important things about permaculture is that it is founded on a series of principles that can be applied… — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
“While the rest of the world roars on, a large and growing minority is choosing not to do everything at full-throttle. In… — Carl Honoré Copy Share Image
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“We will need comprehensive policies and programs that make low-carbon choices easy and convenient for everyone. Most of all, these policies need… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design… — Geoff Lawton Copy Share Image
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