Adrià

“His aim was the creation of self sufficient small towns,really very nice towns if you were docile and had no plans of your own and did not mind spending your life with others with no plans of their own. As in all Utopias, the right to have plans of any significance belonged only to the planner in charge.

- discussing Ebenezer Howards' Garden City”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Cuando una está sola y es pobre no puede permitirse aprender la misma lección dos veces, eso también lo sabemos bien en esta casa.”
― Layla Martínez, Carcoma

“The trust of a city street is formed over time from many, many little public sidewalk contacts... Most of it is ostensibly trivial but the sum is not trivial at all.”
― Jane Jacobs

“Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities