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  • I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

    "'In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most'". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.
  • Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

    Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970
  • The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

    Badass   Bad Ass   Design  
  • When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

    "The Universal Book of Mathematics". Book by David Darling, p. 34, November 8, 2004.
  • Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.

  • In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also be different. It can create surprise. And surprise is the main thing in a work of art. [] I like and respect Brasí­lia very much. It is a simple city, a rational one. I always defend the urban design of Brasí­lia

    Beautiful   Art   Simple  
  • Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

    "Toronto should be more like Singapore, Moshe Safdie says". Interview with Lisa Rochon, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 08, 2011.
  • What you see is what you see.

    Stephanie Rosenthal, Ad Reinhardt, Haus der Kunst München, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella (2006). “Black paintings”
  • Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

    Urban   Planning   Habit  
  • The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.

    Choices   Design   Desire  
    Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.194, Penguin
  • London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

    Design   World   London  
  • The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

    Past   Thinking   World  
  • Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.

    Design   Energy   May  
    Jamais Cascio “Hacking the Earth”, Lulu.com
  • Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan
  • Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

    Funny   Witty   Flower  
    Quote Magazine 8 Oct. 1961
  • When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.

    School   Cities   Ideas  
    Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.
  • The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.

    Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays”, p.166, tredition
  • As the world's "most dynamic" cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors can share their experiences in urban design, clean energy projects, Smart Grids, codes for energy efficient buildings, transportation safety, and innovative environmental solutions.

    Smart   Cities   Safety  
    "Seizing the Opportunities of Global Urbanization: The New Frontier in America’s International Economic Policy" by Robert Hormats, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.
  • Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

  • Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

    "Infographics and marketing: the good, the bad and the ugly" by Freddie Ossberg, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.
  • When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  • One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.

    Hero   Men   Design  
    Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.
  • It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

    William H. Whyte (2012). “City: Rediscovering the Center”, p.109, University of Pennsylvania Press
  • From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with paving, landform, water, vegetation and climate.

    Art   Garden   Water  
  • More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

    Side Effects "My Speech to the Graduates" (1980)
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