Occupation: Architect Birth: September 17, 1936
Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healt….
Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top..
If you make more roads, you will have more traffic..
A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves..
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, an….
In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives i….
A good city is like a good party. People don't want to leave early..
An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city..
Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it..
Something happens because something happens because something happens.
First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works..
Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture..
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people..