Arthur Erickson Quotes

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

Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.

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

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

In an urbanizing world there is an inherent conflict between the automobile and the city. After a point, as their numbers multiply, automobiles provide not mobility but immobility.

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.

In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and even junkyards all the way up. We didn't have to put development just cheek to jowl all the way up to Boulder. There's enough room in Colorado! But we did.

Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.

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'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building a road - you're building the future development of your city. And, that's what's never dawned on people. It still doesn't, in a way.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth.

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 there is a new airport in Mumbai, I would feel proud about it, and I equally feel angry when I see potholes.

Those in the metro-Atlanta area know how crucial the investments in our infrastructure and transportation systems are to improving our communities.

Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.

Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste.

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl.