Joseph Rykwert Quotes

• Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use you don't have cities.

  Joseph Rykwert

  Cities, Use, Ifs

  "Do we want to be citizens or customers?". Interview with Matthew Knight, edition.cnn.com. June 12, 2008.

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• The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

  Joseph Rykwert

  Cities, Impossible, Architecture

  "Property prices are "castrating the whole notion of city life"". Interview with James Pallister, www.dezeen.com. February 24, 2014.

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• If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.

  Joseph Rykwert

  Space, Looks, Welcome

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• One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.

  Joseph Rykwert

  Thinking, People, Quality

  "Do we want to be citizens or customers?". Interview with Matthew Knight, edition.cnn.com. June 12, 2008.

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