Anarchy Quote by Rem Koolhaas

Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith…

— Rem Koolhaas

New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky,…

— Roland Barthes

The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution…

— Josef Muller-Brockmann

Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild…

— Rem Koolhaas

Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has…

— Will Self

“We thought of [New York] as a free city, like one of those storied prewar tropical nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and…

— Lucy Sante

Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had…

— Jan Morris

“The two dominant components that constitute a city, its physical infrastructure and its socioeconomic activity, can both be conceptualized as approximately self-similar fractal-like network…

— Geoffrey West

It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a wilderness purchased…

— Michael Cunningham

“the boiling human chaos of metropolitan New York”

— T.R. Pearson

“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put…

— Bill Hillier

“To live in Manhattan is to be persistently amazed at the worlds squirreled inside one another, the chaotic intricacy with which realms interweave...”

— Jonathan Lethem