David Harvey Quotes

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

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

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.'

Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole group of people that want to build new buildings that look like old buildings.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

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

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

A group oppressed, is a group enslaved ….Whenever a group, a community of people, in unison, feels that it is being oppressed, and that it wants to control its destiny, then that community has a moral right to seek effective redress, or demand to control its own destiny as appropriate

The city of magnificent intentions.

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

what I love about city government is that the citizens can create whatever kind of city they're willing to build.

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.

I heard that Hubballi-Dharwad is going to be a Smart City. But it should ensure the sense of community and love is not lost.

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

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

The city of Rio de Janeiro is setting an example to the world of how to recover quality urban spaces through drastic intervention and the creation of cultural facilities such as the Museum of Tomorrow.

I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.

Hyderabad is my brainchild. I have developed it with passion.

When I look at cities now, I don't see them in the present. This is the decaying infrastructure of our existing cities. Years from now, none of this is going to be here. New cities are going to rise.