Pedestrian Access Quotes

Cities are created by and for traffic.

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

Our streets are very important for social cohesion, for feelings of safety, and we just surrendered all this to the car. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

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

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

When I heard of the 'garden bridge' idea, it seemed so clear and powerful, the notion of using nature to scale down an enormous piece of potentially wind-swept exposed link. That's what struck me - not treating the bridge just as a link, but as a place.