Quotes About Urban Spaces

#1. Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.

Peter Diamandis

#2. When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

Julianne Malveaux

#3. In the light of eternity, is it better to sell out and ride or stand up and walk?

Elmore Leonard

#4. Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

Alex Steffen

#6. Every day is a test," Cisca replied soberly. "But we'll never learn new ways of doing things if we insist on telling everyone what they should be doing.

Todd J. McCaffrey

#7. 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

#8. Unlike the urban development that I see taking over and swallowing up our precious soil, when we interact with our environment in a way that allows for regeneration and natural spaces, the outcome can be beautiful.

Cory Trepanier

#9. It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries imported from the wide-open spaces of the countryside into close quarters.

Charles Emmerson

#10. The body and the soul know how to play
In that dark world where gods have lost their way.

Theodore Roethke

#11. Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

David Suzuki

#12. Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

Will Self

#13. Friends will come along as u go some will stay and some will go but give your best to them while they were here

Alex

#14. America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces

Cathleen McGuigan