Cate Blanchett Quotes

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.

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.

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

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities.

When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.

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.

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

I've worked on the urban agenda all my life. All. My. Life.

We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.

In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

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

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.

If, instead of hiring half-baked revolutionary planners to fill our college undergraduates with ingenious schemes to disperse populations, split up big cities into little ones, go underground or into distant places to escape bombs and congestion, abandon large urban areas in favor of roadside villages, we were to publish reliable, simply written, common-sense information to control the building boom, what a country this would be!

We can’t be a great country unless we have great cities.

Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.

Most cities are eclectic. There's a bit of medieval, Georgian, some Victorian and some 20th century. That's fine. Bath is different because it was built within 100 years or less. It has a homogeneity.

Certain parts are bad in every city, but Chicago is beautiful.

If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved.

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

The Huashan project is a clear example of how an urban element, key to the successful growth of the city, can at the same time improve the quality of life for its citizens, thanks to an integration of all three bridges and the creation of boulevards on the banks of the canal.

London is a vast, complex city designed by the same guy who created the Habitrail.