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Urban Planner Inspirational Quotes (595)

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I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did the research for that book, I was very young. My aim was to understand the notion of 'Total War'.
Paul Virilio
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As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of speed.
Paul Virilio
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Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le Corbusier
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There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
Moshe Safdie
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I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.
Paul Virilio
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In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.
Jane Jacobs
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The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.
David Harvey
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For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense it was a local war. But it was one that made use of all the power normally reserved for global war.
Paul Virilio
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I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of Africa, where tourists are warned to leave their cars under no circumstances until they reach a lodge. It is also the technique practiced in Los Angeles.
Jane Jacobs
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We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.
Marcy Kaptur
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
Alvar Aalto
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Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Less is more only when more is too much.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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As I have said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the Second World War. I was 7-13 years old during the War and did not really internalise its significance.
Paul Virilio
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Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.
Paul Virilio
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Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
Alvar Aalto
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I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants, and Bengal tigers and panda bears in China…you hardly see anything on the habitat of man in the urban environment.
Jan Gehl
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
Oscar Niemeyer
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Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.
Leon Krier
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I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)
Jane Jacobs
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I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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