Cities Quote by Le Corbusier Download Open image “The city that has speed has success.” — Le Corbusier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Speed Success
“Unfortunately, there is no rule saying a city must be a nice place to live in order to attract fast population and economic growth.… — Laurence C. Smith Copy Share Image
An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport. — Enrique Peñalosa Londoño Copy Share Image
“Urban life itself acts as a giant particle accelerator. When people move to the city, they start to do everything faster.” — Carl Honoré Copy Share Image
If we're talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify as quickly as it can. That needs to be said… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm. — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Copy Share Image
If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the… — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Cities like New Delhi for example, where traffic is dense and it's a more fluid driving environment, that's hard for self-driving technology to deal… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein 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
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
