Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing.
In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration to the kind of world that is being created for the children who will be growing up in these settings. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children both older and younger than themselves.
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.
I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.
Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.
If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?
A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.
A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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