Urban Space Quotes

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.

New York city is full of great spaces. The best spaces of the world are here. This is the new Europe, where the settlers came and busted out their ideas and put it down so there's nothing but great space in this great city.

We need find the space to build more affordable homes in the city. That involves a number of different policy responses. For example, I've spoken about the need to rethink the greenbelt - the protected land around the edge of London that was originally intended to be protected and retained as an area of natural beauty but in many cases is neither natural nor beautiful.

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.

I actually walk through Washington Square Park a lot.

A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.

The street is a room by agreement.

Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage people to live.

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

Today, we have sophisticated building technology: we can calculate and simulate the environments and performance of the building, the thermal exposure of envelop, or the air flow through an urban space or structure.