684 Quotes About Planning

  • Author Jane Jacobs
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    No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout the necessity for spreading people through time of day without frustrating its potential for generating diversity.

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  • Author Dolores Hayden
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    By the mid-1950s real estate promoters of the commercial strip were attaching it to the centerless residential suburb. Both strips and tracts expanded under the impact of federal subsidies to developers, but since these subsidies were indirect, it was hard for many citizens or local officials to know what was happening.

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  • Author Dolores Hayden
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    In the wake of the tax bonanzas for new commercial projects, roadside strips boomed. Private developers responded to the lack of planned centers, public space, and public facilities in suburbs by building malls, office parks, and industrial parks as well as fast-food restaurants and motels.

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  • Author Abbi Waxman
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    Life tends toward chaos, sadly... It's all very well to have a plan - its a good idea - but you have to be able to walk away from it if you need to.

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