Quotes by Urban Planners

Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.
Robert Moses
Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.
Leon Krier
The present moment is creative creating with an unheard-of intensity.
Le Corbusier
This sentence consists of eleven words, twenty-three syllables and seventy-four letters.
Charles Pearson
The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.
Le Corbusier
An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it’s where even the rich use public transportation
Enrique Penalosa
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
Leon Krier
A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
Leon Krier
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.
Le Corbusier
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
Roger Starr
Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
Le Corbusier
Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.
Leon Krier
Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.
Robert Moses
The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.
Leon Krier
Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.
Robert Moses