"Cities are about juxtaposition." — Richard Rogers
"Cities are about juxtaposition."
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Richard Rogers
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44 Quotes by Richard Rogers
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My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is…
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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
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The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
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Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces.…
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This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.
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Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to…
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I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the…
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Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
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The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
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I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking…
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Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from…
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Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty…
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
— Aristotle
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
— Paul Auster
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
— Jane Austen
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
— Diane Ackerman
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence.…
— Michelle Bachelet
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's…
— David Bailey
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need…
— Cleveland Abbe
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I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that…
— Alec Baldwin
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