Cities Quote by Arthur Erickson Download Open image “Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.” — Arthur Erickson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Engineering Landscape Process
While the national highway system connects cities and facilitates economic activity across the nation, it's construction historically has been deeply destructive for many communities,… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
“US highways are in such disrepair that instead of repaving, they should just mow the grass that’s sprung up and displaced the concrete.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them… — Christopher Dodd 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
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.… — Fritz Todt Copy Share Image
In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement. — Fritz Todt Copy Share Image
Look at the commercial and industrial development that is going on along the 101. A lot of the infrastructure - the sewer lines and… — David Schweikert Copy Share Image
The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills. — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
No longer will we allow the infrastructure of our magnificent country to crumble and decay. While protecting the environment, we will build gleaming new… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design.… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image