Urbanism Quotes

The word psychogeography, suggested by an illiterate Kabyle as a general term for the phenomena a fe...

A CITY IS AS much a state of mind as a place—a set of perceptions of place. On the last train home t...

Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They creat...

No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matt...

To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable:...

I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsew...

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they ...

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and...