Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
Jane JacobsTags: cities traffic urban-planning
Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of traditional politics is any longer capable of dealing with it. Medico-sociological banalities on the 'pathology of housing projects,' the emotional isolation of people who must live in them, or the development of certain extreme reactions of rejection, chiefly among youth, simply betray the fact that modern capitalism, the bureaucratic society of consumption, is here and there beginning to shape its own setting. This society, with its new towns, is building the terrain that accurately represents it, combining the conditions most suitable for its proper functioning, while at the same time translating in space, in the clear language of organization of everyday life, its fundamental principle of alienation and constraint. It is likewise here that the new aspects of its crisis will be manifested with the greatest clarity.
Tom McDonoughTags: capitalism alienation urban-planning city suburbs situationist 153
Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.
Kevin McCloudTags: home ecology architecture design urban-planning
Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.
William GibsonTags: humor canada cities urban-planning
I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197
Daniel LibeskindTags: architecture urban-planning modernity alexanderplatz methodology
Ahhh, God's balls! The Horrible Halt!" Adoulla pronounced the Dhamsawaati term for the complete standstill of traffic with a familiar disgust.
Saladin AhmedTags: urban-planning
A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
Leon KrierTags: architecture development urban-planning city
There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.
Jane JacobsTags: people cities urban-planning pedestrians downtowns
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