Civil society Quote by Rebecca Solnit

I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's…

— Antoine Predock

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.

— Ziggy Marley

All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.

— Veronica Roth

For me, places are articulations of 'natural' and social relations, relations that are not fully contained within the place itself. So, first, places are…

— Doreen Massey

Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

— Ed McMahon

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

— Norman Foster

There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked…

— Jaime Lerner

It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has…

— Edward Weston

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

Cities are central to the shaping and delivery of national policy objectives, and in return, they are the places where social, environmental, and economic…

— Mark Walport

Relations between people and communities, between people and landscape, people and food, it's always about politics.

— Alice Rohrwacher