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  • Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.

    Urie Bronfenbrenner (1973). “Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.”, Pocket
  • Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

    Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970
  • The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

    "Parliament of Whores". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1991.
  • A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!

    Different   Likes   Urban  
  • Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

    Quoted in Collier's, 6 July 1912
  • There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

    Simple   Government   Car  
  • In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration to the kind of world that is being created for the children who will be growing up in these settings. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children both older and younger than themselves.

    Urie Bronfenbrenner (1973). “Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.”, Pocket
  • Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

    Military   Victory   Half  
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.346
  • Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

  • Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

    John Prebble (1956). “Disaster at Dundee”
  • The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

    Milton Friedman (1975). “An Economist's Protest”
  • A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

  • We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [43]
  • A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.

    Caring   Land   May  
  • A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

    Noble   Urban   Planning  
    Commercial Club of Chicago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward Herbert Bennett (1970). “Plan of Chicago”, Da Capo Pr
  • Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

    Urban   Planning   Habit  
  • Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

    Time   Done   Firsts  
  • ...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.

    Block   Cities   Use  
  • Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

    Commercial Club of Chicago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward Herbert Bennett (1970). “Plan of Chicago”, Da Capo Pr
  • Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

    Italian   Cities   Long  
    Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.138, Penguin
  • Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that [Buckminster] Fuller is talking about when he talked about putting a dome over Manhattan, which is to say an attempt at integrating all of these different technologies in a way that makes for a city that, without having an actual dome, thermodynamically manages the heat flow for that urban environment and therefore makes it so that it is a highly efficient machine for a living or a dwelling machine as he would have preferred in terms of thermodynamically optimizing it.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing.

    Nfl   Buffets   Dangerous  
  • The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

    Cutting   Names   House  
  • We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

    "The Best-laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future". Book by Randal O'Toole, p. 161, 2007.
  • A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

    Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.133, Penguin
  • I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

    Jewels   Cities   Trying  
    "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glance, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.
  • Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

    Funny   Witty   Flower  
    Quote Magazine 8 Oct. 1961
  • I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

  • Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

    Trying   Urban   Planning  
  • One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

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