{"quotes":[{"text":"Great artists need great clients.","author":"I.M. Pei","tags":["architect","architecture","art","artist","artists","city","client","clients","urban","urban-planning"],"id":66769,"author_id":"I.M.+Pei"},{"text":"A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.","author":"Leon Krier","tags":["architecture","city","development","urban-planning"],"id":87679,"author_id":"Leon+Krier"},{"text":"Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of traditional politics is any longer capable of dealing with it. Medico-sociological banalities on the 'pathology of housing projects,' the emotional isolation of people who must live in them, or the development of certain extreme reactions of rejection, chiefly among youth, simply betray the fact that modern capitalism, the bureaucratic society of consumption, is here and there beginning to shape its own setting. This society, with its new towns, is building the terrain that accurately represents it, combining the conditions most suitable for its proper functioning, while at the same time translating in space, in the clear language of organization of everyday life, its fundamental principle of alienation and constraint. It is likewise here that the new aspects of its crisis will be manifested with the greatest clarity.","author":"Tom McDonough","tags":["153","alienation","capitalism","city","situationist","suburbs","urban-planning"],"id":190749,"author_id":"Tom+McDonough"},{"text":"By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.","author":"Socrates","tags":["cities","city","communities","community","socrates","urban-life","urban-planning","urbanism","wisdom"],"id":231802,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.","author":"Kevin McCloud","tags":["architecture","design","ecology","home","urban-planning"],"id":234441,"author_id":"Kevin+McCloud"},{"text":"Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.","author":"I.M. Pei","tags":["architecture","city","i-m-pei","life","mirror","planning","urban","urban-planning"],"id":249178,"author_id":"I.M.+Pei"},{"text":"Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.","author":"Jeffrey Eugenides","tags":["culture","design","detroit","london","money","paris","rome","urban-planning"],"id":250360,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Eugenides"},{"text":"A young, beautiful mayor’s with high-powered plans for the city of Compton must put them aside to become a sleuth to solve the assassination of her husband, the mayor.","author":"Martha Tucker","tags":["california","compton","government","inner-city","mayor","mayor-s-wife","urban-city","urban-planning","urban-political-thriller"],"id":283718,"author_id":"Martha+Tucker"},{"text":"Privacy, self-reliance, choice -- all these can and must remina core American values. Yet so too must we remember that other core American value, the value of community. And we must redefine community more broadly to include not just our street or our tract, but our town, our metropolis, our region.","author":"William Fulton","tags":["california","citizenship","democracy","urban-planning","urban-politics"],"id":285635,"author_id":"William+Fulton"},{"text":"There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.","author":"Jane Jacobs","tags":["216","diversity","urban-planning"],"id":288020,"author_id":"Jane+Jacobs"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}