“Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.” CitiesDesignDisciplineStrategyUrbanInnovativeTransportationSingaporeUrban Design Author:Moshe Safdie
“In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.” WayKindMomentsHomeLeftSpeakCitiesViolenceDisciplineHolyWeaponsAngryNew WaysForbiddenInsectsPilgrimMeccaAngry Words Author:Karen Armstrong
“Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.” KnowsWellsSaidStrongCitiesVirtueSecurityMilitaryWallCitizensDisciplineStrongerTownsBonesSecureExpertsDo You KnowPointingGreat CitiesMilitary Discipline Author:Francois Rabelais
“My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also for the discipline of it. He taught us how to shoot when we were young. He opened up karate schools in the worst parts of the city, on purpose, and then he would systematically clean out a three-block radius, all of the gang-bangers and drug dealers and everybody of nefarious character.” CharacterSchoolYoungPurposeThreeFatherCitiesWorstMilitaryTaughtDisciplineDrugWeaponsCleanBlockGangDealerTaught UsSpecialistsKarateAffinityDrug DealersRadius Author:Lupe Fiasco
“The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.” TwoValuesThreeForceCitiesBalanceDisciplineLessonsStrategyChaosArchitectureBlockDistinctionAnarchyFormalIrrelevantFluidManhattanBuilderGridsMetropolis Author:Rem Koolhaas
“To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.” RealSeemsTodayValuesLiteratureHouseCitiesFictionDisciplineFairsTraditionLonelyMilesCraftsFortyRoughSheepCandyPointlessSkullsCottonAthensMulesArcadiaQuillsCotton Candy Author:Alexander Theroux
“The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.” SufferingIndividualNationsCitiesLordClearFailingDisciplineConsequenceHeed Book:Turning the Tide: Real Hope, Real Change Source: Turning the Tide: Real Hope, Real Change
“A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and - above all - responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.” LooksSelfIndividualCitiesLibertyPrinciplesDestinyMankindDisciplineMoralityResponsibleShiningHillsSelf DisciplineSelf RelianceReliancePleadingRendezvous Author:Ronald Reagan
“To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.” TryingHumansPersonsSelfHappensCareActionSufferingUniverseIndividualHuman BeingsCitiesAcceptingFateAchieveEventsDutyDisciplineUniversalResponsibleFellowsDeterminedAriseNeglectSelf DisciplineWhatever HappensUncontrollable Author:Epictetus
“It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.” TryingMatterSuccessCitiesStreetsDisciplineAccomplishDeterminedSelf DisciplineInner CityCity Streets Author:Wilma Rudolph