Anthony Flint > Quotes

“They walked to the next block, where people were sitting on stoops, talking, running errands, and darting in and out of their homes, and Bacon told her it was an example of what cities needed to eradicate.”
― Anthony Flint, Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

“Resistance to change has been strong.”
― Anthony Flint, This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America

“These projects will not revitalize downtown; they will deaden it," she wrote. "They will be stable and symmetrical and orderly. They will be clean, impressive, and monumental. They will have all the attributes of a well-kept, dignified cemetery.”
― Anthony Flint, Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

“It was about growing in more efficient ways. That seemed like a reasonable idea. Why would it meet with such fierce resistance?”
― Anthony Flint, This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America

“For some commutes, the time spent stuck in traffic will hit four hours per day.”
― Anthony Flint, This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America

“Year after year, sprawl shows itself to be hugely inefficient and a money-loser for local governments. Town halls scramble to get more tax revenue to pay for the schools and the water and sewer pipes extending to the new development, often by welcoming in big-box strip malls and office parks. But the books never balance, and the result is higher taxes, busted budgets, and more unsustainable sprawl.”
― Anthony Flint, This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America

“Jacobs had begun to see links between the order of the natural world and man-made systems, and how dynamic order emerged spontaneously from many individual decisions. Her belief that planning required flexibility and a light touch was bolstered by a growing fascination with chaos theory and fractals, and a theory of systems that put a premium on diversity over uniformity.”
― Anthony Flint, Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City