”Vibrant cities spawn innovation, economic growth, and cultural enrichment; the Urban Affairs office will focus on wise investments and development in our urban areas that will create employment and housing opportunities and make our economy more competitive, prosperous, and strong.”
The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
The trouble with land is that they’re not making it anymore.
It’s not the plan that’s important, it’s the planning
Amateurs accustomed to emulation made great places. It is the professionals of recent decades that have ruined our cities with their inventions.
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.