Automobile Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in…

— William O. Douglas

Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

— Louis-Philippe I of France

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way…

— Rem Koolhaas

A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan…

— Richard Carson

“Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Ahhh, God's balls! The Horrible Halt!" Adoulla pronounced the Dhamsawaati term for the complete standstill of traffic with a familiar disgust.”

— Saladin Ahmed

If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

— William J. Brennan

“There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities…

— Jane Jacobs

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

— Winston Churchill

There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

— Will Rogers

Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that [Buckminster] Fuller…

— Jonathon Keats

“Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the…

— Jane Jacobs