42 Quotes by Jaime Lerner

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

The car is the cigarette of the future

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.

The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. When a city accepts as a mandate its quality of life, when it respects the people who live in it, when it respects the environment, when it prepares for future generations, the people share the responsibility for that mandate. This shared cause is the only way to achieve that collective dream.

The car is the cigarette of the future.

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

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

We can’t have landfills forever, and we can’t ask others to accept our trash.