Top 1200 Urban Planning Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

I've hardly ever played urban characters.

If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty. Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams. Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

I consider my music edgy, urban and with an earthy element.

I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

By over-all planning, we mean planning which takes into consideration the interests of the 600 million people of our country. In drawing up plans, handling affairs or thinking over problems, we must proceed from the fact that China has a population of 600 million people, and we must never forget this fact.

It's great to bring urban music to the commercial scene.

[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.

I was actually born in Madison, Wisconsin, but raised in urban Missouri.

I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.

The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word 'landscape' to mean 'a good place' - as the objective of the design process; a comprehensive approach to open space planning involving city parks, greenways and nature outside towns; a planning theory about the contextualisation of development projects; the principle that development plans should be adapted to their landscape context.

I would love to play an urban working girl.

From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

Canada can be tough for urban music.

I have a low taste for urban fantasy and paranormal romance.

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.

I'm not an urban person.

I grew up in Shanghai, a big urban city.

There's no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience.

Just that dwelling and planning is bullshit, you dwell on the past, you can’t move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you stay stagnant in the same place all your life. Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you’ll get wherever it is you’re going a lot faster and with less bumps in the road along the way.

I love to be in New York. And I think anybody who's a designer, who says they're doing an urban collection, thinks about the streets of New York. I cannot do an urban collection thinking of Bangkok. Or Mexico. To me, it's totally instant, totally connected with what attracts me these days. But this resurgence of a modern, cool way of being dressed is something that stimulates me and is totally right for me. Even now I don't like to show something that is some futuristic utopia.

A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.

UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That's where prayer comes in.

In a closed urban fantasy, the magical world is secret and no one knows about it. In an open urban fantasy, everyone knows about it. So with a closed fantasy, you have to figure out how the world keeps itself secret, and with an open one, you have to figure out how knowledge of magic has altered the world we know.

A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.

Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas.

I'm very into urban chic; it goes with my personality.

The separation of church and state is a suburban, not an urban, issue.

I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.

Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.

Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

Wild and urban at the same time - that's the type of woman I'm with.

I happen to be unique. I'm a Republican that represents an urban area.

To me, my brand is luxury, it's art, it's women, it's raw, it's urban.

In urban culture, Larry Davis is something of a legend.

How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.

I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.

If I thought about planning, I'd plan movies. If I thought about planning my life, I'd plan my life more rationally, not like New Yorkers who live their lives so irrationally, without reason. Maybe that's the connection between my movies and New York: the movies have the same kind of lack of overall design.

I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together. Imagine small strips of land between apartment buildings that have been turned into vegetable gardens, and urban orchards planted at schools and churches to grow food for our communities. The seeds of the urban farming movement already are growing within our reality.

I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

I'm an urban person.

There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.

Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

Urban living is an intersection of business and personal life.

You know, urban culture is fun; it's lovely.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new limbs to do what it needs to do. So there's very little planning. There's a little planning where I say, "Well, it looks like I'm going in this direction, ok, good." But there's very little forethought or intellectual justification: "Oh, look, I'm putting in a theme park because that represents dystopian America!"

I'm an urban act.

33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space.

Millennials want to live in urban areas.

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