Urbanist's Quotes

#1. Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait for politics to catch up before they improve their neighborhoods. This weathervane book deserves a place on any urbanist's bookshelf.

Alex Steffen

#2. Hippocrates can be justifiably regarded as the father of Western medicine, and he stands in relation to this science as Aristotle does to physics. Which is to say, he was almost entirely wrong, but he was at least systematic.

Philip Ball

#3. On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Tom Lehrer

#4. The fact there was the desire that had been the basis of everything, much before any feelings or thoughts had become important, complicating it all.
I missed you, Dan. Everything.

Aleksandr Voinov

#5. I love the word warm.
It is almost unbearable
so moist and breathlike.

Anne Sexton

#6. We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

Rebecca Lim

#7. Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

Mick Cornett

#8. If someone is robbing us, come back after buisness hours! Calla's voice came from upstairs.

Maggie Stiefvater