Architecture Quote by Paul Davidoff

“The built environment is shaped not only by private sector development pratices, but also by the honored and fascinating field of planning. Planners in…

— Melissa Everett

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

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They…

— Leon Krier

“Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the…

— William Cronon

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the…

— Bjarke Ingels

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

— Le Corbusier

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the…

— Jane Jacobs

“In the 1980s, worried professionals began to come together to compare notes and create visions of new ways of living that would offer a…

— Bella DePaulo

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

— Jaime Lerner

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the…

— Michael Arad

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the…

— Stone Gossard

City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary,…

— Murray Bookchin