Jonathan Raymond Quotes

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.

My studio's passion is improving the public experience of cities for everyone.

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness.

The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.

We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time.

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.

Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

As go our cities so goes our country.

All it takes is an understanding that humans, not buildings come first when designing a city.

With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no question that science and technology can produce abundance so that no one has to go without.

I will involve everyone to make Delhi an ideal state.

We're planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We're building public transportation and affordable housing.

I want people to feel they are living in good urban environments with greenery and green space.

When we talk about a city, we need to talk about what the future is. Whats the ideal scenario in the future?

Transit builds a city that people choose to live in.

All through my twenties, I lived in very walkable cities - Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York.

The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection.

My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future.