“ By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. Socrates
“ From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth hunting wild pig with the Nandi, later training racehorses for a living… Beryl Markham
“ Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.And everything awful used to be something good. Brian K. Vaughan
“ The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation. Ray Oldenburg
“ The development of an informal public life depends people finding and enjoying one another outside the cash nexus. Ray Oldenburg
“ The charm of a city, now we come to it, is not unlike the charm of flowers. It partly depends on seeing time creep across it. Charm needs to be fleeting. Nothing could be less palatable than a museum-… Robert Doisneau
“ Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few. A new dirt road through the wilderness brings th… Ivan Illich
“ Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when one awakens with a start after extreme anxiety.' But a start against whom? Who h… Tom McDonough
“ ...Americans didn’t stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no sooner arrived in town, turning those towns into great mid-century metropolises,… Jerry Herron
“ I delve into the mysterious and counterintuitive world of helmets and high-visibility gear later in the book. But it's worth immediately noting this: while they're not inherently bad, they're less a s… Peter Walker
