Blind Quote by Edwin Markham

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

— Edwin Markham

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

— Jane Jacobs

Buildings have been made because of man.

— Leon Battista Alberti

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must…

— Jane Jacobs

“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as…

— Nelson Algren

For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are…

— Jerry I. Porras

You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build,…

— Catherine the Great

If we're going to make a city everybody can live in for a lifetime, we need to make sure we are building and growing…

— Betsy Hodges

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

— Edwin Markham

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then…

— Minoru Yamasaki

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations:…

— Philip Johnson

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use…

— Alcaeus