Dean O'Gorman Quotes

In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm.

They say that no one walks in L.A., and it's definitely true, and I'm embracing that.

Brussels is sort of a mini London in the sense that if you think about putting a football pitch in London, people laugh at you. There is just no space.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me.

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

As you move away from mass transit you become more dependent on the automobile, so you have to spread the housing out more to accommodate the cars.

People want subways, folks... subways, subways. They don't want these damn streetcars blocking up our city!

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

I think that Delhi Metro has made things convenient for people, and we must credit the government for that. The Metro network that they have built in the city without disturbing any infrastructure is amazing.

London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line.

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

We need a first-class transportation system.

I'm of that subset of native New Yorkers who can't drive.