Fritz Todt Quotes

I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast.

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

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

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles.

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our city's history and to envision its great place in our future.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.

The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities - from anything but cities themselves.

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible. They operate on the premise that city people seek the sight of emptiness, obvious order and quiet. Nothing could be less true. The presences of great numbers of people gathered together in cities should not only be frankly accepted as a physical fact... they should also be enjoyed as an asset and their presence celebrated.

Architecture is the work of nations

The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage.

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm, enriching or impoverishing it in a lasting and radical manner. The architecture of the city and public space is a matter of common concern to the same degree as laws and language—they are the foundation of civility and civilisation.

One important role for the city is to conduct studies to document areas of greatest need, and to facilitate coordination between our public and private transportation options to weave it into a dense tapestry of accessible and reliable transportation.

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.