Architecture Quote by Sally A. Kitt Chappell

“Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just plots of…

— Galen Cranz

“Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the…

— Jane Jacobs

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people…

— Jane Jacobs

“Intricacy is related to the variety of reasons for which people come to neighborhood parks. Even the same person comes for different reasons at…

— Jane Jacobs

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

— Robert Smithson

“If the park can be reduced to a single cultural indicator, it is that of optimism. Contained within the evolution of the park idea…

— Karen R. Jones & John Wills

“the presence of buildings around a park is important in design. They enclose it. They make a definite shape out of the space, so…

— Jane Jacobs

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

— Bruce Babbitt

Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.

— Andrew Jackson Downing

“Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it’s said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be…

— Valeria Luiselli

“All that remains of the garden city in our own day are traffic-free enclaves, islands in a sea of traffic where the pedestrian leads…

— Tom McDonough

“Although it has become the most visible of American suburban landscapes, the edge node has few architectural defenders. Even developers despair: 'Shopping centers built…

— Dolores Hayden