Building Quote by Helmut Jahn

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

— Helmut Jahn

I'm from New York City. I grew up in the city. Suburban life was very odd to me.

— Max Joseph

“Suburban sprawl has heavily damaged the balance of our cities, divorcing environmental context from design and removing the concept of scale from the creation…

— Avi Friedman

Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

— Dan Gilbert

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen…

— Florence Henderson

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard…

— Ed McMahon

When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids…

— Meg Rosoff

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization… Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in…

— Aldous Huxley

I have no concept of suburban life, where you have to drive an hour to work.

— Michele Lamy

My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama…

— Tom Perrotta

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction,…

— Helmut Jahn

The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering…

— Noam Chomsky