Bjarke Ingels Quotes

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.

From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.

In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm.

How people move around their city is a big deal. It affects productivity, security, health, and global warming, among other things.

If we were redesigning around people instead of around automobiles, which I think the market is more or less going to do, although too slowly, than I'd be a lot cheerier.

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.

I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me.

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

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

Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving.

New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.

We have stopped making communities in which people want to live and are making communities where people drive through.

The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character.

They say that no one walks in L.A., and it's definitely true, and I'm embracing that.

Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas.

People want subways, folks... subways, subways. They don't want these damn streetcars blocking up our city!

I don't think all the cycle lanes in London have been designed as well as they should have been.