Community Space Quotes

My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed.

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

The street is a room by agreement.

When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.

I have always wanted to have a cultural centre where people can sort of have a community of artists and like-minded people sharing their work.

A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

We're not really in the real-estate space so much as we are the community-building space.

I know Australians are no strangers to pubs, but in the U.K., the pub is a real meeting place because the houses can be quite small, so the pub is an extension of the living space.

There are so many people from many different classes and ways of life who converge in one space to make a musical.

Starbucks being an extension of peoples home and work. The sense of community, human connection. That appears to be as relevant in Turkey, China, Japan and Spain as it is here in America. And Starbucks I think is creating something for people all over the world that has not existed before.

The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there.

We think about project's public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of being there.

There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place, a community space.

I created and opened a student-run coffeehouse in undergrad, and I loved it. I'd want to do that in the West Village.

The school will fill the place now occupied by the church.

I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you're in New York, it's known that I'll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn't that be nice?

The color and spectacle of Mexico's streets sparked my interest in community driven space and experience, a passion that I began to develop while studying architecture at Syracuse University and then at the Architectural Association School in London. Having been immersed in such a diverse array of lively environments, it would be impossible for me not to use these memories and experiences as inspiration for my work.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.

Gwanghwamun Square will be reborn as one for people.

They should go back to the medieval tradition, which is that the nave of the church is always used for local business.