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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. -- Winston Churchill
A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die. -- Daniel Burnham
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. -- Miguel de Cervantes
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. -- William Shakespeare
Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride. -- Louis-Philippe I of France
If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner? -- William J. Brennan
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. -- Milton Friedman
A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go. -- T. S. Eliot
Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality. -- Robert McNamara
Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan. -- Winston Churchill
There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars. -- Will Rogers
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. -- Socrates
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees. -- Bill Vaughan
...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood. -- Jane Jacobs
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. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money. -- John Prebble
A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending. -- James Howard Kunstler
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. -- Alexander Hamilton
Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts. -- Rebecca Solnit
Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time. -- Francis Cornford
A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God! -- Richard Carson
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
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. -- Rebecca Solnit
I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples. -- Zaha Hadid
Like Free People, the Urban brand is planning to grow by expanding product assortments, expanding the brand reach and by improved marketing. -- Richard Hayne
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning -- Kenzo Tange
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. -- Kenzo Tange

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