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Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences. -- David Rockwell
Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world. -- Will Self
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
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
I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong. -- Janet Echelman
I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces. -- Anne Waldman
What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate. -- Teresita Fernandez
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
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
The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares. -- John Ruskin
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
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
For me her image, the triptych, became a study of the weight the black male figure carries, given the fact that they are targeted by the police, and are constantly in danger of being misread in public spaces. -- Claudia Rankine
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
I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago. -- Sandra Cisneros
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
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
It is worth noting that the people today who so vehemently wish to sweep religion from all public spaces and institutions are also the same people who consistently oppose freedom. They want only one God &emdash; the state, which of course they intend to run. -- Charley Reese
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
There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion. -- George Will
I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go from my studio to my bedroom. Everything else is extraneous. I never entertain, because to me, New York is about meeting people in public spaces, absorbing a little bit of their energy. -- Ross Bleckner
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead" -- Caitlin Moran
Architecture is about public space held by buildings. -- Richard Rogers
Our public spaces are as profound as we allow them to be, -- Candy Chang
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space. -- Tadao Ando
Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet. -- John Scalzi
If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket. -- Florentijn Hofman
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
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
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
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
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
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
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead -- Caitlin Moran
When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins. -- Julianne Malveaux
We think about project's public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of being there. -- Richard Meier

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