Assumption Quote by William J. Mitchell

Smart cities are those who manage their resources efficiently. Traffic, public services and disaster response should be operated intelligently in order to minimize costs,…

— Eduardo Paes

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must…

— Jane Jacobs

The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.

— Kenya Hara

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives,…

— Henry Petroski

The government is talking about developing smart cities and to them, smart cities mean infrastructure. But to me, a city is smart when the…

— Milind Soman

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

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

— Paula Scher

“Good design thinkers observe. Great design thinkers observe the ordinary. Make it a rule that at least once a day you will stop and…

— Tim Brown

The single biggest problem in design is finding out from the client what it is that they really want.

— Syd Mead

“Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.”

— Donald A. Norman

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be - community-building places, attractive for all people -…

— Allan Jacobs