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The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no…
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There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that…
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Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet…
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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.…
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Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
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I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary…
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Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities…
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It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth…
— Phil Harding
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Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once…
— Rem Koolhaas
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Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
— Jane Jacobs
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One expect summed it up by saying: "Trying to cure traffic congestion by building more roads is like trying to cure obesity…
— Unknown Author
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In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.
— Lewis Mumford
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It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying…
— Ken Livingstone
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As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators.
— Julius Genachowski
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Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.
— Van Day Truex
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