There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.
From Jaime Lerner
There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked to mobility - and social diversity.
Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.
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.
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
Sometimes the media gives us the impression that we are terminal patients, because of problems of global warmth or the ozone layer. And the people, they don't understand that they can could change this situation for the better if they could act locally in a city.
I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.
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