Building Quote by Jan Gehl Download Open image “An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.” — Jan Gehl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Building Cities Endless Green Numbers
I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the past. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
There can be no sustainable development without sustainable energy development — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
I think green buildings are extremely important but it's only part of the equation. A lot of people think that if I put a… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times. — Jens Jensen Copy Share Image
Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation. — Ed Rendell Copy Share Image
Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake,… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
I am all for greening tall buildings, but I'm also very keen to note that greening a building doesn't cope with the problem of… — Joseph Rykwert Copy Share Image
We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years — Hiroyuki Watanabe Copy Share Image
First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works. — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people. — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing.… — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas,… — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves, — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place… — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It… — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture. — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image