Quotes About Placemaking

Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They'll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.

You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.

We can have the kind of city we want. We can tell the car where to go and how fast. We can be a place not just for driving through, but for arriving at.

I'm interested in the gene bank of how Americans have built in different regions in different times.

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

Buildings should be good neighbours.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

use, mixed income, density, and transit.

There is a message for all city makers here. It is that with the right triangulation, even the ugliest of places can be infused with the warmth that turns strangers into familiars by giving us enough reason to slow down.

Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the center—at the very least a main crossroads and pausing point, a climax.

Public and quasi-public bodies should establish their buildings and facilities at points where these will add effectively to diversity in the first place (rather than duplicate their neighbors).

CONDITION 1: The district, and indeed as many of its internal parts as possible, must serve more than one primary function; preferably more than two. These must insure the presence of people who go outdoors on different schedules and are in the place for different purposes, but who are able to use many facilities in common.