Rem Koolhaas Quotes

The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they can get permitted quickly and get building quickly.

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.'

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

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.

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.

Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.

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

Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete jungle, you must find open spaces. And when you find open spaces, make it so people can get to them.

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

Besides infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity in housing and urbanisation of cities - not only building new ones, but also renewing the infrastructure of old cities to make them more livable. This provides tremendous scope for large investments to fuel growth.

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

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

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

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

The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.

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.

The city of magnificent intentions.

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!

All it takes is an understanding that humans, not buildings come first when designing a city.

The emphasis of the program should be changed from traditional publicly built slum based high rise projects to smaller units on scattered sites.

Part of being in New York is being able to brag about what used to be there.

Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to replace them.

Urban planning should be done with the mindset that we are determining the city's fabric for 100 years to come.

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