Paul Oakenfold Quotes

Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings... it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on the move here, and there's a lot going on. There are some wonderful architecture and some not-so-wonderful.

China's urbanization supported the country's impressive growth and rapid economic transformation.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.

Family is everything, although I've been fortunate enough to have worked with some of the most amazing minds over the years, including Renzo Piano, John Young, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour.

I'm not trying to bring New York to Toronto. I want to understand Toronto better.

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

I think, at least for me, I'm so impressed by Shanghai and how all of China continues to evolve. On a style level, you're seeing this increased sophistication and brand awareness.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.

One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.

New York City has always had more in common with Paris or London than with Cincinnati.

European colonizers, though not without envy and enmity, have shared among them the best coast districts of these lands [Asia]. Towns of such universal commercial importance as Hong Kong and Singapore are the most eloquent witnesses to the indefatigable enterprise of Europeans amidst the prevailing Asiatic torpor.

The industrial competition of China would be incomparably more dangerous to Western civilization than that of any other nation, not only because of its multiformity, but also because it is a competition to which nature has set no climatic limits. Thrifty and patient and cunning as Jews, the Chinese can accommodate themselves to any climate and to any environment….. Once China has been penetrated by the forces of Western civilization, her population will begin to display new activities, and to expand in all possible directions. Chinese competition will have to be faced, probably, very much sooner than had been expected.

I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.

Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

I've always said that L.A. is the city of America's future. It is to the world what London was in the 19th century and New York in the 20th because of the growth of the Pacific Rim countries. We're the portal to the emerging world.

People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas.

Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

Shanghai is Asia's New York.

Seoul is becoming a global city.