L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

The emphasis of the program should be changed from traditional publicly built slum based high rise projects to smaller units on scattered sites.

The city ... is involved in the fight for its life. One of the critical battlegrounds is the struggle to preserve middle class residential neighborhoods.

Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.

I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.

That's the beauty of Mumbai. While some parts have grown rapidly, there are places like Churchgate that have retained their character.

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary, or even efficient city, much less a beautiful one.

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.

When cities were first founded, an old Egyptian scribe tells us, the mission of the founder was to 'put gods in their shrines.' The task of the coming city is not essentially different: its mission is to put the highest concerns of man at the center of all his activities.

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.

Transformed people transform cities.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

Every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

It is our dream that by the time we celebrate the 75th year of independent India, all the slums are replaced by cemented houses.

I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our city's history and to envision its great place in our future.

The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.