Quotes about Urban planning

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Great artists need great clients. — I.M. Pei
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. — I.M. Pei
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. — Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, — I.M. Pei
A young, beautiful mayor’s with high-powered plans for the city of Compton must put them aside to become a sleuth to sol — Martha Tucker, The Mayor's Wife Wore Sapphires
Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in ord — Kevin McCloud, Kevin McCloud's 43 Principles of Home: Enjoying Life in the 21st Century.
Privacy, self-reliance, choice -- all these can and must remina core American values. Yet so too must we remember that o — William Fulton, The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles
Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones. — I.M. Pei
Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all — Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. — Socrates
13 million Indians will join the workforce every year from now till 2030. They know their prospects aren’t good. Here’s — Mihir S. Sharma, Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy
A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims. — Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community
There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude a — Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great arch — I.M. Pei
Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life. — I.M. Pei
A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time — Patrick Geddes