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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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Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core…
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In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
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As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora…
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Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly…
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Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and…
— E. O. Wilson
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a…
— E. M. Forster
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San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.
— Paul Kantner
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In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United…
— Peter Agre
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As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000…
— Jo Bonner
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When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a…
— Wilfred Burchett
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to…
— Stewart Brand
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In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how…
— Maya Angelou
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Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.
— Jane Jacobs
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We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men…
— Richard P. Feynman
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We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.
— Ken Blackwell
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