Town Planning Quotes

“Single-purposism, as we have seen, tends to create projects that harm the environment. Instead, we should design projects with as favourable an environmental impact as possible. This is the objective of environmental impact design.”
― Tom Turner, Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design

“A smart city is an intelligent town that provides enormous possibilities for human growth through art, culture, social, architectural, economic, political, environmental, and scientific flowering with the optimal mix of nature, technology, humanity, and arts.”
― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

“Smart cities are the intelligent cities of positivity and happy-energy, not the junkyards of technologies but cities of diversity, love, life, beauty, dignity, freedom, tolerance, and equality.”
― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

“A city without some form of a transect is like a country without a constitution; It is a breeding ground for spatial anarchy.”
― Archimedes Muzenda, Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities

“To increase density in a rat population and maintain healthy specimens, put them in boxes so they can't see each other, clean their cages, and give them enough to eat. You can pile the boxes up as many stories as you wish. Unfortunately, caged animals become stupid, which is a very heavy price to pay for a super filing system!”
― Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension

“From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with paving, landform, water, vegetation and climate.”
― Tom Turner, British Gardens: History, philosophy and design

“Environmental planning has been too scientific, too man-centred, too past-fixated and two-dimensional.”
― Tom Turner, Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design

“Town-planning," Geddes once wrote, "is not mere place-planning, nor even work-planning. If it is to be successful it must be folk-planning. This means that its task is . . . to find the right places for each sort of people; places where they will really flourish." These places, of course, are not really to be found, but have to be made. From his earliest designs for a botanical school garden and urban renewal work in Edinburgh to his latest building initiatives in Montpelier in southern France, Geddes pursued the creation of such places. He perceived himself as a gardener ordering the environment for the benefit of life.”
― Volker M. Welter, Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life