Architecture Quote by Jonathan Raban

That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do…

— William J. Mitchell

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

In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design…

— Rebecca Solnit

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around…

— DJ Spooky

My goal is always to create something exceptional that enhances cities and enriches the lives of the people who live and work in them.

— Santiago Calatrava

A unitary urbanism — the synthesis of art and technology that we call for — must be constructed according to certain new values of…

— Gil J Wolman

“Its first postulate is that the contemporary urban environment is so complex and so vexatious in its demands that no group of ordinary, unaided…

— Adam Greenfield

“There are countries in which the communal provision of housing, transport, education and health care is so inferior that inhabitants will naturally seek to…

— Alain De Botton

A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and…

— Charles Abrams

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

— Paul Goldberger

And city plnenars the world over are beginning to rethink the role of the automobile, seeking ways to design cities for people, not cars.…

— Sabine

I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the…

— Antony Gormley