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Architecture is about public space held by buildings. -- Richard Rogers
I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong, -- Janet Echelman
I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong. -- Janet Echelman
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space. -- Tadao Ando
If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket. -- Florentijn Hofman
Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world. -- Will Self
New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster. -- John Updike
I like to talk. That's why I can't karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a public space. -- Liza Lapira
In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to. -- Evgeny Morozov
We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen. -- Rebecca Solnit
A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life. -- Richard Rogers
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world. -- Tadao Ando
I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine. -- Florentijn Hofman
Starbucks is the last public space with chairs. It's a shower for homeless people. And it's a place you can write all day. The baristas don't glare at you. They don't even look at you. -- Mike Birbiglia
Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it. -- Susie Orbach
If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street. -- Joseph Rykwert
Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space. -- Bette Midler
Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification -- Roger Scruton
The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space. -- danah boyd
Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens. -- Sheila Jeffreys
You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in. -- Bette Midler
Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space. -- Elizabeth Alexander
Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility. -- Ellen Lupton
I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and de Kooning, one of the big boys. -- Stella Vine
Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation. -- Aleksandar Hemon
That's what is always fascinating about racism - how it is allowed, if not encouraged, to flourish freely in public spaces, the way racism and bigotry are so often unquestioned. -- Roxane Gay
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When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces. -- Simon Bird
When I went to India, I became absolutely obsessed with the idea of building a hotel in India. I've never done a hotel, and I'd love to do public spaces in that culture. -- Hugh Hardy
You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found, -- Martin Parr
Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art. -- Carole King
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay. -- Zadie Smith
Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity. -- Tariq Ramadan
I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space. -- David Blunkett
My generation is so used to having our public spaces look like the Starbucks, with the beautiful lighting and the little bit of Nina Simone and my coffee that's blended a certain way from Costa Rica. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness. -- Enrique Penalosa
Unless you're trying to make a movie on the sly, there's no way to get around this. If you want to use public spaces, film on the streets, have the cooperation of the police, you have to have a permit. -- Asghar Farhadi
It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots. -- Genevieve Gorder
There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused harm. It's called a 'public nuisance.' I wouldn't mind being called that for my life's work. -- Vito Acconci
All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls. -- Dean Koontz
The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises. -- Rebecca Solnit
Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything around a street sculpture-they all become part of it. A two-dimensional work, being confined to surfaces, doesn't have as much of a capacity. -- Mark Jenkins
Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. -- Banksy
The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from? -- Rachel Nichols
Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company's executives - is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America's public spaces. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage indifference, fear, double standards, subversion, bad economy, a twisted definition of 'public' itself, the whole Weltanschauung - an entire range of emotions and attitudes is exposed. -- Slavenka Drakulic
The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act of complicity with violence, and violence against Israelis, understood as synonymous with Jews, and so violence against Jews, clearly stops the speech with an unspeakable allegation. -- Judith Butler
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life. -- Antony Gormley
As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body. -- Rebecca Solnit
From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space. -- Kenneth Frampton
I like to talk. That's why I can't karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a public space. I got to say, though, with smartphones and instant upload of everything, our generation and definitely the next generation coming up, it's going to be hard to act a fool. -- Liza Lapira
Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard. -- Barry McGee
For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city. -- Edi Rama
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 Libeskind
Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green. -- James Howard Kunstler
In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps roll their eyes, slick young businesswomen purse their mouths, teenagers look disgusted, waitresses anxious. But it strikes me as ironic that many members of the public fret about British Muslims donning the hijab, yet happily condone the veiling of nursing mothers. -- Rowan Pelling
Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet. -- John Scalzi
Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared. -- Mal Peet
NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space. -- Christa McAuliffe
In our era of celebrity, where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of the greatest oddities may be that there is not a livelier discussion about the individual's basic need for a more private space. -- Lily Koppel
Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever. -- Douglas Rushkoff
When I first joined the Irvine Company, I realized that less than 11,000 acres were designated as open space in the original master plan, and that just didn't seem adequate to me. So, I began the lengthy process working with public and community organizations to add more open space. -- Donald Bren
I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once. -- Stephen Hawking
Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space. -- Joshua Prince-Ramus
[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation. -- Richard M. Nixon
Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet. -- John Scalzi
Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul. -- Enrique Penalosa
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face. -- Malcolm Gladwell
As a cornerstone of my policy, we will substantially expand public-private partnerships to maximize the amount of investment and funding that is available for space exploration and development. -- Donald Trump
All space must be attached to a value, to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space that you can imagine is the human mind. -- Paulo Mendes da Rocha

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