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City Planning Quotes

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed Picture Quote #1

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business Picture Quote #1

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, ‘neighborhood’ is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense Picture Quote #1

In a city where you walk around, it’s impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you’ll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns Picture Quote #1

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods Picture Quote #1

City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary, or even efficient city, much less a beautiful one Picture Quote #1

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As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it’s just total! It’s a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That’s what science fiction is about Picture Quote #1

The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age that has come, adopted to its better conditions of use and ornament. We want, therefore, a city planning profession Picture Quote #1

You can’t really succeed with a novel anyway; they’re too big. It’s like city planning. You can’t plan a perfect city because there’s too much going on that you can’t take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have Picture Quote #1

The next time you’re planning to injure yourself to get my attention, just remeber that a little sweet talk works wonders. - City of Bones (said by Jace Wayland) Picture Quote #1

New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans Picture Quote #1

The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm’s highlights whatever else they may do. Although this is by any measure a triumph of city planning, the building itself is not quite a masterpiece, though very fine indeed Picture Quote #1

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Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn’t successful - isn’t even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being ‘vibrant.’ Picture Quote #1

While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country Picture Quote #1

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I’m still at the top Picture Quote #1

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower Picture Quote #1

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor Picture Quote #1

As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing Picture Quote #1

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There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people Picture Quote #1

You can’t really succeed with a novel anyway; they’re too big. It’s like city planning. You can’t plan a perfect city because there’s too much going on that you can’t take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have Picture Quote #1

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building Picture Quote #1

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy Picture Quote #1

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In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed (City Planning Quotes) Planning cities is a necessary but risky business (City Planning Quotes) Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, ‘neighborhood’ is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense (City Planning Quotes) In a city where you walk around, it’s impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you’ll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns. (City Planning Quotes) For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods. (City Planning Quotes) City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary, or even efficient city, much less a beautiful one. (City Planning Quotes) As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it’s just total! It’s a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That’s what science fiction is about. (City Planning Quotes) The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age that has come, adopted to its better conditions of use and ornament. We want, therefore, a city planning profession... (City Planning Quotes) You can’t really succeed with a novel anyway; they’re too big. It’s like city planning. You can’t plan a perfect city because there’s too much going on that you can’t take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have. (City Planning Quotes) The next time you’re planning to injure yourself to get my attention, just remeber that a little sweet talk works wonders. - City of Bones (said by Jace Wayland) (City Planning Quotes) New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans (City Planning Quotes) The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm’s highlights whatever else they may do. Although this is by any measure a triumph of city planning, the building itself is not quite a masterpiece, though very fine indeed (City Planning Quotes) Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn’t successful - isn’t even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being ‘vibrant.’ (City Planning Quotes) While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country (City Planning Quotes) I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I’m still at the top (City Planning Quotes) Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower (City Planning Quotes) To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor (City Planning Quotes) As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing (City Planning Quotes) There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people (City Planning Quotes) You can’t really succeed with a novel anyway; they’re too big. It’s like city planning. You can’t plan a perfect city because there’s too much going on that you can’t take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have (City Planning Quotes) Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building (City Planning Quotes) The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy (City Planning Quotes)