42 Quotes by Jaime Lerner

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.

Sometimes the media gives us the impression that we are terminal patients, because of problems of global warmth or the ozone layer. And the people, they don't understand that they can could change this situation for the better if they could act locally in a city.