Urban Planning Quotes - Page 2

• Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Cities, Imagination, Quality

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.133, Penguin

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• Nada es peligroso si sabes lo que haces.

  Johnny Unitas

  Nfl, Buffets, Peligroso

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• There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

  Will Rogers

  Simple, Government, Car

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• ...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.

  Jane Jacobs

  Block, Cities, Use

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• Debe prestarse especial atención a las oportunidades que el entorno ofrece o impide para que los niños se relacionen con personas mayores y menores que ellos.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Opportunity, Urban Renewal

  Urie Bronfenbrenner (1973). “Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.”, Pocket

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• Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Rome, Hands, Cities

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.80, A&C Black

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• Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

  Luis Felipe I de Francia

  Urban, Planning, Habit

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• A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Urban, Planning, Traffic

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• Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Italian, Cities, Long

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.138, Penguin

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• Los demócratas son el partido que dice que el gobierno te hará más inteligente, más alto, más rico y te quitará las gramíneas del césped. Los republicanos son el partido que dice que el gobierno no funciona y luego salen elegidos y lo demuestran.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Partido, Humor, Gobierno

  "Parlamento de Putas". Libro de P. J. O'Rourke, 1991.

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• Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

  Francis Cornford

  Time, Done, Firsts

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• I like to say I had a very varied undergraduate education. I was an English major first, and then at the end of my college career I decided I was interested in urban planning. I became an urban studies major, with a minor in poetry. I don't think I knew what I was looking for in my early twenties, but I know I kept not finding it.

  Ayana Mathis

  College, Thinking, Urban

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

  Marcel Pagnol

  Machines, Bombs, Watches

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• Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that [Buckminster] Fuller is talking about when he talked about putting a dome over Manhattan, which is to say an attempt at integrating all of these different technologies in a way that makes for a city that, without having an actual dome, thermodynamically manages the heat flow for that urban environment and therefore makes it so that it is a highly efficient machine for a living or a dwelling machine as he would have preferred in terms of thermodynamically optimizing it.

  Jonathon Keats

  Technology, Thinking, Talking

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

  William Gibson

  Cities, Television, Way

  William Gibson (2007). “Spook Country”, p.295, Penguin

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