111 Quotes

“The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity. ”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“It was disturbing, like an enchanted place. I had not thought it could be as beautiful as this”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.”
― Michael Ventura, Letters at 3am

“The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there 111 kings...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Unitary urbanism's point of departure is the changeableness of our aspirations and our activities. We know that neither eternal truth nor absolute beauty exist and that, for this reason, ideal form does not exist. Form that is in constant modulation and in agreement with the unceasingly changing aspects of our existence, such as we will produce it. The environment in which we live influences our activity, but reciprocally this environment is a product of our creative activity.”
― Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader