Book Quote by Witold Rybczynski

“Suburban sprawl has heavily damaged the balance of our cities, divorcing environmental context from design and removing the concept of scale from the creation…

— Avi Friedman

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is in no appreciable way different than what…

— Richard Lamm

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

— Richard Rogers

“ADEPT ADAPTATION Potholes on the road of life sharpen our maneuverability skills Kamil Ali”

— Kamil Ali

Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights and sounds,…

— Tony Hiss

“Expanding urbanization often trapped people at the margins of settlements into becoming landless and unable to use their skills and thus gradually forced them…

— Romila Thapar

So here's my advice to city planners. Make your city runnable. Runners are the first wave of troops bringing human activity back to the…

— Don Kardong

“Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, swelling here, shrinking there, like some low…

— Noah Lukeman

Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.

— Anonymous

Gentrification is a problem of poor planning.

— Aja Brown

Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Gentrification is key to understanding what happened to our cities at the turn of the millennium. But it is only half of the story.…

— Jeff Chang