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Urban Planner Inspirational Quotes (596)

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What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
Aldo Rossi
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if they were the same kind of creature, with the same kinds of possibilities.
Jane Jacobs
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For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA). The war provided a test site for experimentation, and paved the way for emergence of what I call in Strategie de la deception 'the second deterrence'.
Paul Virilio
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A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.
Jaime Lerner
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it.
Denise Scott Brown
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I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.
Jane Jacobs
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The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.
Rem Koolhaas
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War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.
Paul Virilio
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The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.
Jane Jacobs
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Exile is a series of photographs without texts.
William J. Mitchell
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The net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.
David Harvey
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Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. My new hypothesis shows why. But also in trading with each other they can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another.
Jane Jacobs
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Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
Alvar Aalto
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All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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We are surrounded by pictures we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what pictures are doing, understanding them, doesn't seem necessarily to give us power over them.
William J. Mitchell
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I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Photography is and is not a language language also is and is not a photography.
William J. Mitchell
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs.
David Harvey
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Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.
Christopher Wren
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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier
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