Quotes About Livability

Transit builds a city that people choose to live in.

Improving highways and mass transit will make North Carolina an even better place to live and do business.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

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.

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

People who live in monofunctional, car-dependent neighborhoods outside of urban centers are much less trusting of other people than people who live in walkable neighborhoods where housing is mixed with shops, services, and places to work.

Enrique Peñalosa with a big and simple idea: that urban design should be used to make people happier.

use, mixed income, density, and transit.

A house is a machine for living in. Baths, sun, hot-water, cold-water, warmth at will, conservation of food, hygiene, beauty in the sense of good proportion. An armchair is a machine for sitting in and so on. Our

The bedrock attribute of a successful city district is that a person must feel personally safe and secure on the street among all these strangers.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Forget the damned motor car and build cities for lovers and friends.

Most importantly, I strive for function above all in every house.

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

I say homes are for families, and you have to make sure you design for the family, not just one person: kids, your wife, your grandparents need to be able to use it.

il y a dans les villes deux fonctions, l'une primaire d'habitation, l'autre secondaire de circulation, et on voit aujourd'hui partout l'habitation méprisée, sacrifiée à la circulation, de telle sorte que nos villes, privées d'arbres, de fontaines, de marchés, de berges, pour être de plus en plus «circulables», deviennent de moins en moins habitables.