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“Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.”

Humans Human Beings Evolution Concepts Towns Architecture Planning Something New

Author:Leon Krier

“But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.”

Should Stills Two Ends Bigs Running Universe Pieces Atheism Middle Rivers Towns Woods Planning Simile Illustration End Of Life Jargon Philosophic Extremity Homely

Author:Chapman Cohen

“I was a runner and a soccer player living in Okinawa, Japan and I didn't have recruiters coming in to recruit me for sports. So how many kids out there and planning to go to college are super stud athletes but don't have a chance because they come from some podunk town and no one comes to watch them?”

Kids Sports Chance Watches Player College Towns Athlete Planning Soccer Japan Runners Recruit Soccer Player Studs Okinawa

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.”

Streets Modern Determination Towns Accepted Planning

Author:Le Corbusier

“While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.”

Thinking Stills Country Cities Died Towns Decades Planning Our Country Fallen Memorial Parades Memorial Day

Author:Allen West

“And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.”

Wanted Together Pleasure Seeing Paper Crosses Towns Leaving Planning Strings Back Together

Book:The John Green Collection

Source: The John Green Collection

“Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.”

Play Sound Cities Sweet Concepts Towns Intention Planning Neighborhood Imitation Sentimental Valentine Good Sense Sentimentality City Life City Planning

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.”

Pleasure Towns Planning Anticipation

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns