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"What a Lifestyle Center is selling is a totalitarian version of urbanism, like a walkable miniature plutocracy."
"The right to the city is a call to action to reclaim the city as a co-created space for a transformed, renewed, and self-managed urban life."
"American cities are expressions of democracy, places where people have to negotiate differences and find ways to live together."
"We raise trees to put up monuments to our narcissism, our topsoil is data with trees of concrete sprouting from it bearing fruits of creation tended to by gardeners calling themselves a bedrock royalty lives and dies but a story is eternal."
"Instead of college being a version of simulated urbanism, you could just choose to live in a college town."
"You can see how this architecture enables this activity and really this bustling city on the edge of the Nile here at the edge of the world."
"There's no city that feels as futuristic as Tokyo."
"Pittsburgh is a big Market... Pittsburgh changes Street by Street."
"I love landscape of streets of main streets of America so I don't want to see an Amazon truck on every and no no stores."
"Cities would be marked by the presence of God in ways we've never known before."
"It's a modern city but it also has history."
"The downtown of Fargo is really beautiful, clean, no graffiti, no trash, well-kept buildings."
"Imagine living in a place where the city itself was walkable."
"It's one of the most pedestrian-friendly cities in Florida."
"...Rudi Riv will become an emblem...thanks to its numerous arcades opening onto the pavement..."
"The local conversations program is where strong towns happens in real life."
"Paul's mission from day one has been that we want to build better cities."
"This city is beautiful in every angle."
"Timeless in a city barreling toward the future."
"Kuala Lumpur is an absolutely gorgeous City."
"The plants swaying along the walls and in the windows and doorways of the building add a natural, colorful layer to the city."
"What makes a city a city is not merely that it serves as a crossroads of commerce, it must also be a crossroads of ideas. ASU helped guarantee the community's vitality."
"Going down the urbanist YouTube rabbit hole has really bolstered my understanding of urban planning theory and practice."
"the pulsing futuristic excitement of the American city, thrusting into the heavens"
"Most of the citizens of Jezero City interact with the QI through normal handhelds and consoles, but here they can do so in the calm contemplative environment of this magnificent garden."
"Transportation business has to be looked through the lens of rural and suburban every bit as importantly as urban."
"...it's not the only thing I'm trying to make sure is people don't run away of the idea that there's a rebirth of urbanism and that we're suddenly rebuilding city walls and we're laying out roads."
"If a Skyline represents the city itself, what does it say about a place when an unsightly abomination such as Chicago's Lost Robert Taylor homes arises?"
"...more Mobility is always going to be a good thing it means more opportunity a more interesting City and more accessibility for everyone."
"Calgary and Edmonton are interesting because they punch above their weight in things like transit and even density while existing in an environment that can be quite challenging culturally, politically, and practically to things like density, transit, and city life."
"Portland has this real reputation as being this hub or mecca for urbanism, public transit, and all things cities."
"It really brings just this immense sense of joy and possibility about what cities could be."
"...the city itself continues to be seen by people around the country and around the world as a place that has some utopian or dystopian of course qualities unlike California's ghost towns Los Angeles remains a thriving metropolis and a powerful symbol for the California Dream"
"It's a beautiful city with a stylish mix of the old and the new."
"That's why you become an urbanist. You're like walking around, you can actually see the city and you're like, 'Damn, this shit sucks.'"
"The entire city, everything you've been seeing, is inside these walls."
"A truly global index with over 100 cities represented, revealing fascinating insights into urban cycling."
"The United States was built on walkable cities. Every major city in the United States was once a walkable city built around a train station."
"Kenzo's later projects focused on collective, urban spaces."
"Kenzo envisioned Tokyo as a living being, capable of growth and change."
"Big cities tend to have certain leanings and more progressive approach to things."
"The Ono pedal assisted transporter is a GameChanger for urban mobility and Logistics."
"The walkability and the quaint atmosphere that really showcases what the authentic side of Pittsburgh has to offer."
"Cities are ecosystems, simplified."
"Welcome to the Gothams of tomorrow."
"Hedonistic sustainability: the idea that sustainable City or Building can also be much more enjoyable for people inhabiting it."
"Paris became a spectacle in itself, and the boulevards were part of that."
"What you have in effect in the city of Chicago is any number of segregated populations white as well as black."
"The south side of Broughton Street... illustrates how the facades have been essentially neutralized and made blank canvases."
"Walking around the city, I believe it's the best way to see a new city."
"It's amazing, it's like a city within a park."
"When local authorities were alerted to the find archaeologists rushed to explore this underground Marvel they were astounded to discover that Daren cuyu could have supported as many as 20,000 people along with their animals and stored food."
"...Calgary is actually the third most diverse major city in Canada with more than 120 languages spoken."
"...Calgary has been voted a few times as the cleanest city in the entire world."
"Consider just one remarkable fact: in any large urban area, the districts in which the children are most in need are those where expenditures per school student are likely to be the lowest, and vice versa."
"The profession needs to become aware of and describe the new reality of cities towards a new reality."
"This is not an estate, it's a full City."
"New York is a city known for resiliency."
"Jane Jacobs maybe one of the best writers on American cities today still because there's so many of her theories are completely applicable to the way that cities are still formed and the way that they operate and the way that they change."
"Cities of spirits, towns of spirits, Spirit Metropolis."
"Even our animals benefit from living in a city of great architects."
"For cities, architecture matters, but it's not that important. It's just lots of people being there and doing lots of specific things that makes the city better."
"New York City, as much as Hong Kong or Venice, is a City built on islands."
"Each house, each flat is a fragment of the city."
"You often hear urbanist and transport pundits enthuse over how centrally located railway stations are in European cities."
"King Street: where architecture tells Charleston's story."
"New York is up right now. There was a period where not much came out of New York compared to other places in this country. You would hear of L.A. Atlanta was going quick. It's still going crazy, but New York feels like it's back now."
"It's kind of controversial, yeah, the elements, you know, dirt and seaweed and something in the city, yeah."
"Cities become little microcosms, little mini universes."
"An open city is one in which people become skilled in managing complex conditions of life, and taking advantage of opportunities which are unforeseen, accidental, etc."
"The idea of an open city is founded on the notion of synoikismos, which means a coming together of different people or groups."
"An open city economically is synchronous, meaning many things are happening at once, allowing for economic opportunity."
"Every open city is not so much socialist as anarcho-syndicalist, escaping the nation state's desire to create order."
"An open city is dialogical in focusing on self-correcting or self-revising processes rather than looking at discourse as a means to the end of action."
"The more open a city is, the more it escapes the nation state's desire to create order."
"The pace of life is inextricably increasing because of this super linear behavior."
"Something may not be a city but we may call it a city just because we call any large collection of people that has a name a city even though it might not technically be that."
"The reality to Deleuze is that it's not chaos, the city is an active thing in motion, it's a machine seeking connections, the connections that it ends up making, a rhizome."
"Paris even has car-free days where residents are encouraged to explore their city through alternative means."
"To be urban, people must live in the city."
"Quito is a clean city as well because the people are so kind so helpful and care about their city they do a really nice job."
"Like members of the same family, cities are all different, but they share important commonalities."
"We need to relearn that cities are about urban space, not objects."
"San Francisco is the only city west of the Mississippi with any sense of urbanism whatsoever."
"The story of the American city is the story of people on the move."
"This is what we have, we all have made the real city; this amalgam is the true matter of our time."
"A city requires a supply of food, sophisticated systems of irrigation, and a rule of law."
"The city of Barangay is a major seaport sitting at the mouth of the Magdalena River, home to over two million people, making it the fourth largest city in Colombia."
"The existence of these micro houses is only possible because the city has been conceived as an extension of the home."
"Cities are fluid and dynamic, and they're ever-changing."
"Cities are more complex than that, and perhaps you can't purify human needs without taking away human freedom."
"The city is a large house and the house is a small city."
"We need to prioritize the needs of people first, whether they be on foot or on a bike."
"If you want to make a difference in society, if you want to make a difference in how human life goes, then you ought to be in cities."
"The mature city achieves a balance with nature and with the people that it serves."
"Despite their colorful pantheon of gods, the real religion of the Romans was the religion of urbanism, the cult of the city."
"The city is a mystical thing where nature and architectural forms swirl together in rapturous unison."
"Urban space and text, cityscape and storytelling are thus intertwined in Ferrante's novels."
"We've changed the streets; now it's for people and public transportation."
"The great Numerian city of Starfall sprawls around the Silver Mount."
"Towns and small towns are the new suburbs."
"It's the very pavement that we tread, the parks, the streets, the squares, the boulevards, the bridges, the airports, the connections."
"The result is a supercool city with no sense of community, making this the world's smartest ghost town instead."
"There are moments in time when different design disciplines are able to make the argument that theirs is the most important lens through which to understand or create cities."
"Interior urbanism describes interior spaces that are so large that they behave like cities."
"Vast interior spaces are defensible structures and in places like where I grew up near Detroit, the Renaissance Center was supposed to be a gleaming beacon of modern construction as a jewel in the struggling city center."
"It's a city that if you took it out of its metro area and dropped it in the middle of nowhere, it would be diminished somewhat but could still be a great City on its own merits."
"This master plan had a guiding principle for how to improve downtown for the coming decades."
"It called for creating a more pedestrian-friendly environment."
"It's like this future where each of these high-rises are kind of their own city."
"Here, thrashen serves as a blueprint for future skate videographers in urban settings."
"Cities... the derivation of the word city is Civitas, which means citizen, and Civitas is the basis for civilization."
"As software has moved itself into the interstitial spaces of our world, software development is much more like engineering new cities themselves."
"Some of the most iconic football stadiums are often wedged into dense neighborhoods and have great transit access and very little parking."
"Sports venues are such a unique and challenging and I think important urban land use."
"Urban integration does the stadium interface seamlessly with the surrounding neighborhood without overly disrupting the grid."
"Now is a great opportunity to create fresh new cities, cities not beholden to the old rules."
"There are very creative people-led solutions to gentrification that not just ourselves but planners and policymakers need to look at too."
"Tokyo arguably has several different Metro systems which integrate and connect incredibly well despite the fact that they are separate."
"That is a fully realistic, completely and absolutely doable model for urban planning."
"The drone had the potential to totally rewrite cities because all of a sudden you're dealing with a nomadic form of infrastructure that can move and drift around the city."
"It's got some sneaky good urbanism."
"The character of urban spaces comes from the people who live and work in it as they modify their physical and social environments to suit their needs and values."
"In general, people's lifestyles are going to change, and that's gonna change the way cities flow."
"For what it's worth, I believe in places like a city from before."
"Our society will never be great until our cities are great."
"By forging relationships between the public space and the built components, it is possible to consider other ways of making the city."
"A top 10 list on this channel is really just a Trojan horse for my breathtakingly insightful commentary on urban environments and how we get around them."
"Evidence that urban environments are creating behavioral sinks in our species."
"The reality is it's a place in transition that's presenting great opportunities for everyone and an open pallet for urban expression."
"You end up with these leftover interstitial spaces that quite often become the most beautiful public shared spaces."
"For me, I was fascinated by public spaces in the city which I've subsequently described as the urban glue."
"If you want a nicer walkable city, then you should have public transportation."
"Land use is a huge component of transportation, and these two things go together like a pair."
"People want to be able to live in cities where they can walk, roll, bike, and take transit to meet their daily needs and avoid the expense and hassle of owning a car."
"It's also important to understand the recurrence of debates about what is the place of nature in city building."
"New urbanism is very much a modernist project, had its origins in the 17th century, the Age of Reason, 18th century age of Enlightenment."
"It spoke to our need for Civic art, the potential people have for good, giving people something to Rally around and be inspired by. It was Pro City, it was pro-urban."
"We need all of these impulses in new urbanism."
"Walkable diversity, walkable urbanism for diverse people."
"As long as we have people that show up at these new urbanist meetings and want to keep having the conversation, well, that's progress."
"Cities are not really about architecture; they're really about culture."
"The most important scale of all is the people scale, the city at eye level, city for people, the city for five kilometers an hour."
"If you have to choose between having a lively city and a lifeless city, you will pick the lively city."
"First we shape the cities, but then certainly the city shapes our way of living."
"If you invite people to walk and bicyclists to bicycle, there will be more people walking and more people bicycling."
"Could you imagine what life would be like in a city where all its population live inside the same building?"
"An artificial city created with the harmony of nature in mind."
"The built environment provides the backdrop to our everyday lives."
"This middle ground of housing... can balance advantages of lower density living like personal space and independence with advantages of higher densities."
"For more than a decade, Bilbao has been winning various awards for its urbanism and the infrastructure investments that have made this such a clean and convenient place to live."
"My love for urbanism and my love for transport... is just deeper than an interest; it's an absolute passion."
"As far as futuristic things go, they say it doesn't get more futuristic than Chongqing, this city here."
"The city of the future is going to require the use of robots, artificial intelligence, and more machines."
"Imagine a city where you can just walk through a garden like this, and it's not flooded with people."
"Imagine a city that has incredible restaurants, shopping, tourism sites, and much more."
"Urbanism isn't only about making nice places to live but also about making places that are more efficient."
"I want to do urban planning Farms."
"The world will be powered by clean energy, the cars will be green, the compact cities will prevail."
"Are cities hyper-organized soulless machines, or are cities technological wonders filled with opportunity?"
"The most effective way for someone to improve their quality of life is to leave and find somewhere that actually values nice walkable places."
"The final manifestation of this whole big pattern is a giant city."
"Chatswood is an example of transit-oriented development."
"The image of the city is made up of three items: identity, structure, and meaning."
"The best way to understand the actions of a city were to understand it is a set of agreements."
"It is a city that listens to the conversations that its buildings carry on with each other and with the waters that hug its shores in the distance."
"A city is a story, written in stone, glass, brick and steel."
"The basis of architecture as we know it in an urban setting, there's a kind of urban geometry."
"Merged entirely with this understanding of what the city asks for."
"The 15-minute city initially was like an urban planning principle or philosophy."
"I think that looks really good; I think that's a great addition to the city."
"The last thing you can say about North American urbanism is that it's stagnant."
"It's genuinely a city within a city."
"We walk through the city the way we walk through nature, but are surrounded by an environment that has been molded to accommodate us."
"The urban environment was subjected to brutalist mayhem."
"You shouldn't have to have a car to get around. Just let people do things. Let people have bikes."
"What I want to do here is the story of the ordinary practices of walking in the city and of what these practices are believed to be shaped by space and shape space."
"The city beautiful movement sought to increase the number of park spaces available."
"The city in its complete sense is a geographic plexus, an economic organization, an institutional process, a theatre of social action, and an aesthetic symbol of collective unity."
"What do you prefer? A small densely packed walkable city where everything is at your fingertips, or a place where you have nothing but honking and you have yelling and screaming and just madness all around?"
"Landscape architects are the urbanists of our time."
"New York's greatest gift has always been one thing and one thing only, which is its density."
"Urban planning is a geometry problem."
"I like urban decay, it's just an interesting facet."
"Cities... make people more innovative and productive."
"The city celebrates a perpetual tomorrow."
"Cities are invention machines and their productivity enhancing and personal leverage machines."
"We are thinking about how to reduce the reliance on the automobile and how to put people where there already is infrastructure, transportation, and jobs."