D'Angelo Russell Quotes

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

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

One great building does not make a great city.

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

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

My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest.

To me, Los Angeles was the invention of the suburb. They figured it out and perfected it and created a city that was dependent on the automobile.

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

Transit builds a city that people choose to live in.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building a road - you're building the future development of your city. And, that's what's never dawned on people. It still doesn't, in a way.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

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.

We can’t be a great country unless we have great cities.

Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.

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

A city of homes should not be built as a business center.

The thing you gotta understand about L.A. is that everything is suburbia. Los Angeles isn't set up like San Francisco or New York.

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.