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'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
A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go. — T. S. Eliot 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
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
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
Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality. — Robert McNamara 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
...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
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the… — Rebecca Solnit 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
Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances. — George S. Patton 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
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
“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
One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb. — Marcel Pagnol 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
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
