City Planning Quotes:

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.

- Willis Polk

topic: Cities, City Planning, Limits

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

- Richard Rogers

topic: Cities, City Planning, Planning

I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.

- William O. Douglas

topic: People, Zoologist, City Planning, Geologist, Urban Planning

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

- Daniel Burnham

source: Quoted in Collier's, 6 July 1912

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Dream, Insisting, Diagrams

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir one's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work; remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

- Daniel Burnham

source: Commercial Club of Chicago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward Herbert Bennett (1970). “Plan of Chicago”, Da Capo Pr

topic: Motivational, Blood, Long, Diagrams, City Planning

In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration to the kind of world that is being created for the children who will be growing up in these settings. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children both older and younger than themselves.

- Urie Bronfenbrenner

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

topic: Growing Up, Children, Opportunity, City Planning, Planners

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

- William H. Whyte

source: William H. Whyte (2012). “City: Rediscovering the Center”, p.109, University of Pennsylvania Press

topic: Space, People, Design, City Planning, Urbanization

Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.

- Urie Bronfenbrenner

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

topic: Children, Opportunity, Attention, City Planning, Urban Planning

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

- Charles Dudley Warner

topic: Garden, Land, Cities, City Planning

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

- Jane Jacobs

topic: Cities, Years, Rebuilding, Pseudoscience, City Planning

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

- Le Corbusier

topic: Cities, Space, Order, City Planning, Cement

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.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Source: www.tangentonline.com

topic: Art, Reading, Commitment, City Planning

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.

- Murray Bookchin

topic: Beautiful, Validation, Cities, City Planning, Sanitary

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.

- Gore Vidal

source: Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Writing, Cities, Perfect, City Planning

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.

- Jane Jacobs

topic: Disappointment, Cities, Causes, City Planning, Tagged

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

- Toni Morrison

source: Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.258, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Cities, People, Black, Social Policy, City Planning

When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.

- Frank Gehry

source: Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

topic: School, Cities, Ideas, City Planning, Urban Design

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.

- Horace Bushnell

topic: Cities, Age, Gunpowder, Times Gone By, City Planning

The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.

- Martin Nolan

topic: Baseball, Stars, Quilts, Ballparks, City Planning

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.

- Martin Filler

topic: Cities, League, House, City Planning, Opera House

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.

- Jane Jacobs

topic: Sweet, Valentine, Play, City Planning