Building Quote by Jane Jacobs

Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is…

— Ai Weiwei

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

People make a city, it's not the other way round.

— Varun Sharma

I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don't just do one building at a time.

— Elizabeth Diller

We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe…

— Cesar Pelli

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are…

— K.P. Yohannan

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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

— Edwin Markham

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

— Cesar Pelli

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

— Leon Krier

First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to…

— John F. Kennedy