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“Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.”

Social Space Cities Policy Healthy Safe Function Aim Democratic Meetings Urges Architect Sustainability Urban Urgent Lively Integrated Democratic Society Planners

Book:Cities for People

Source: Cities for People

“Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.”

States Church Cities Education Mankind Function

Author:Philip Wylie

“In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.”

“In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.”

United Cities Tree Example Function Financial London Miles Kingdoms Overwhelming Sheer Fabulous Dominance Poisonous Notorious United Kingdom

Book:Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

Source: Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

“A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.”

Together Grows Cities Function Structure Working Together Organisms

Author:Jaime Lerner

“Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into the ecosystems around us, but without sacrificing all the niceties of civilization like good restaurants, concert halls, and high-speed Internet access. I'm saying that partly tongue-in-cheek, but I'm also deadly serious. The future of technology is sustainable ecology.”

“Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time. I was in a very dark place, in lots of foreign cities, far from New York. A lot of personal trials and tribulations took over my life in those years. It might be some time before I see what therapeutic function this book did serve. But for now, it's not even easy to read from it.”

Way Feels Writing Years Book Might Easy Dark Cities New York Function Trauma Trials Tribulation Therapeutic Dark Places Trials And Tribulations

Author:Porochista Khakpour

“I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontractor."”

Used Cities Dog Grew Grew Up Function Ass Construction New Yorkers Kansas Administrative Kansas City

Author:Kevin Sessums

“The whole function of cities has been transformed.”

Has Beens Whole Cities Function Transformed

Author:Cleve Jones

“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”

Art Matter Form Culture Energy Social Cities Creativity Function Symbols Chiefs Reproduction City Life Cities At Night

Author:Lewis Mumford

“We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.”

Should Problem Cities Involved Function Architecture Reincarnation Housing Daily Work

Author:Alvar Aalto

“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962”

Source: A Life in Letters

“Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It's no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes.”

Religious Cities Leader Magic Modern Particular Waste Function Desert Shopping Coincidence Timeless Exhausted Vans Pyramids Malls Religious Leaders Motels

Author:J. G. Ballard