Paul Goldberger Quotes

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

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.

People want subways, folks... subways, subways. They don't want these damn streetcars blocking up our city!

Living in N.Y.C. has truly awakened me to the New York elite and their penchant for the city's self-described brilliant public transit system. I think it sucks... just like public transit always does.

There are so many more people in Tokyo than in New York, but it's pristine. It's so organized, and yet the address system is in complete chaos.

The streets of New York are entirely man-made and unmistakably that, so you feel as though you're on some sort of presentation platform whenever you're out on the streets.

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.

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

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.

Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.

In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.

Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas.

Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.

I believe building new subways must be a top priority.

I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

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

I just hope I can still take the subway, honestly.

New York City has a tradition of great stations. There are cities in the world that don't have that. New York has it.

Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.