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Urban Planner Inspirational Quotes (596)

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Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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[ René Lévesque] didn't understand why things do collapse. It's usually a very banal reason why things do collapse. It's not a grand reason, why they collapse economically, at least in the West.
Jane Jacobs
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Life is more important than architecture.
Oscar Niemeyer
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Lagos has also had a particular effect on my career. I was there early, and although it was a courageous step to go there and invest on this scale - I went there maybe 20 times - it's also been also super-controversial. There's an old school of thought that somebody like me has no place to go there.Because of colonialism and so on.
Rem Koolhaas
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I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning
Kenzo Tange
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Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.
Alvar Aalto
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Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.
Le Corbusier
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The design of a city is like a strange archeology.
Jaime Lerner
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Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.
Rem Koolhaas
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I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have.
Jane Jacobs
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Architecture aims at Eternity
Christopher Wren
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Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive they can be concepts.
Paul Virilio
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Now all we have to do to enter the realm of art is to take a car.
Paul Virilio
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The body is not simply the combination of dance, muscles, body-building, strength and sex: it is a universe.
Paul Virilio
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Surprise is key in all art.
Oscar Niemeyer
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The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.
Walter Gropius
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Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.
Jane Jacobs
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Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Rem Koolhaas
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real.
Paul Virilio
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There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.
Jane Jacobs
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.
Le Corbusier
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier
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