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The spectacle of people following current custom for lack of will or imagination to do anything else is hardly a new failing.

Whatever their occupation, almost all organization people feel their particular job is depression-proof.

The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

If you want to seed a place with activity, put out food.

People tend to sit where there are places to sit

What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.

So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

It's not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.