Quotes on Urban Design

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.

The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also be different. It can create surprise. And surprise is the main thing in a work of art. [] I like and respect Brasí­lia very much. It is a simple city, a rational one. I always defend the urban design of Brasí­lia

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.