John Hench Quotes

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Urban planning should be done with the mindset that we are determining the city's fabric for 100 years to come.

We've lived through a time in which people have felt they could forge their own future and make a better world. We may not have achieved our dreams in the time frame that we once believed was realistic, but the magnitude of what is yet to be achieved only confirms the importance of our commitment. Knowing this, we can't stop now.

The Garden Bridge has not found its right moment, but I hope one day it will and that London continues to be open to ideas that make life here better.

When one deals with urban issues, one never deals with clear black-and-white issues; they're all trade-offs. Important urban issues present conflicting values.

My philosophy is that while there's life, there's hope. It's as simple as that.

When I lived in Delhi, it was burdened with so many futures - fast roads, malls, flyovers - that one felt almost obliged to be hopeful. Now that hope has diminished, you can feel the city going into a frenzy to reinvent itself. I miss living there.

I can sign all of the emergency proclamations I want, but that's not going to fix the infrastructure in urban Honolulu.

In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.

I look forward to working with the White House in areas like infrastructure, where President Trump says he wants to spend a trillion dollars. Great - we'd love to start right here in Los Angeles.

Most cities are the same.

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.

Trinity River Vision is huge for Fort Worth.

New York City has a tradition of great stations. There are cities in the world that don't have that. New York has it.

Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

There will be a focus on infrastructure. The American people had elected a builder to be President of the United States. We're going to work with members of Congress to move forward legislation to fund our infrastructure more effectively in the country.

With one eye on today's blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal.

There's always tomorrow and it always gets better.

Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured.

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem

Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

I like the present and tomorrow

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.