Do you know what are the classic quotes on urban planning?

1. Cities are centers of various industries. ——W. Copper

2. The bigger the city, the more lonely you feel. ——Latin

3. Being born in a famous city is the first condition for a person's happiness. ——Euripides

4. For a city, the most important thing is not the architecture, but the planning. ——Ieoh Ming Pei

5. The ordinary city is a calm lake. Gently submerge Qiqiu. ——Annie Baby

6. Music is the harmony of heaven and earth; etiquette is the order of heaven and earth. Harmony, therefore all things are transformed. ——"Book of Rites and Music"

7. Urban ecological security is an important aspect of ecological security. Ecological security is also a type of national security. Today, among the factors that threaten national security, ecological and environmental issues are a prominent aspect. Environmental pollution, ecological refugees, resource wars, environmental health and other issues seriously threaten the national interests. Government policies and economic development are also paying more and more attention to ecology. environmental issues. Therefore, ecological security has become an important part of national security. ——Ouyang Zhiyun

8. Cities must no longer spread like ink stains and oil stains. Once they develop, they must bloom in the shape of stars like flowers, alternating green leaves with golden light. ——Patrick. Geddes "The Evolving City"

9. The city itself is seen as a sad economic necessity, spreading uncontrollably into the countryside. Trees and farms have been destroyed to make way for houses and factories or large-scale agribusiness operations, and water, air and soil have been polluted. This degradation may be irreversible and lead to some catastrophic consequences: man-made deserts, oceans polluted by waste, sudden changes in climate, mass extinction of species or unfit to breathe air. Cities are therefore seen as a fundamental threat to our habitats. ——(US) Kevin Lynch

10. The city, as a material expression, is a visible material form. Urban planning is the development goals and plans within a certain period of time, and is a comprehensive deployment of urban construction. Its purpose is to provide residents with a good working, living, recreational and transportation environment through an overall study of the city and surrounding affected areas.

11. Don’t forget that compared to thousands of years of rural civilization, human urban civilization only has a history of just over 200 years, and China’s urbanization has an even shorter history. In some sense, we ourselves or our recent ancestors all came from the countryside.

12. The Bible tells us how the world developed: it started with a garden and ended with a sacred city. —— Bruske

13. "Community" is a group, which is composed of a group of people who are connected with each other, have the same interests or ties, and have the same region. ——F.M. Rogus, L.J. Bodegg

14. Every community should be a separate society, as autonomous as possible. The community should be a whole that not only looks like a whole but actually is a whole. It should have an optimal size that does not become unreasonable. ——(US) Kevin Lynch

15. If you want to be famous but don’t want to know the world, live in the country; if you want to know the world but don’t want to be known, then live in the city. ——Colton

16. To evaluate a city, it depends on how many bookstores it has. ——(Russia) Rubinstein

17. It took humans more than 5,000 years to have a partial understanding of the nature and evolution of cities. It may take even longer to fully understand them. potential properties that have not yet been recognized. At the dawn of human history, cities have already developed into mature forms. In order to have a deeper understanding of the current situation of cities, we must scan the historical skyline to examine the vaguely discernible traces, and explore the ancient structure and original structure of the city. Function, this is the primary responsibility of our urban research. ——"Beauty" Lewis Mumford

18. People's attitude towards resource consumption is closely related to the development of cities. In the process of urban development, human activities are increasingly separated from nature and natural ecosystems.

In modern cities, people can use energy at the touch of a switch, water is controlled through faucets, resources from all over the world can be purchased in supermarkets, and garbage can be flushed away or left outside to be collected. In effect, the environmental consequences of our urban lifestyles are hidden or packaged and placed far away. The result is that in cities, people have few activity mechanisms to pursue a lifestyle that causes little damage to the environment because the advantages of such a lifestyle are hidden from them. ——"English" David Ludlin

19. Any reasonable urban planning must be regional planning. ——Lewis Mumford

20. Do our universities have too much money and nowhere to spend it? In fact, it is not, or even quite the opposite. Many universities in our country have become bank "debtors", and some university loans have reached as high as 1 billion or even 2 billion yuan. According to the data provided by the blue book issued by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the current total loans of universities to banks are about (150-2000) billion yuan. Due to the high loan amount, some colleges and universities no longer have the ability to repay as the loan repayment peak approaches. At the same time, the proportion of poor students in our country's colleges and universities is around 20, and they are also in urgent need of assistance. ——Excerpted from "The struggle to build luxurious gates reflects the loss of the university's spirit"

21. Cities have always been expanding outward along the edges of regions, and newly formed residential areas have gradually integrated into the original urban areas. Over time, suburbs and villages, once considered outside the confines of cities, have now been squeezed into the belly of metropolitan areas. ——"The Formation of Streets and Towns"

22. The competitiveness of a country depends on four elements: infrastructure, education, government and a good environment, and China has done well in the first three aspects. That's great, but the environment is a disaster. —— Thomas Friedman, author of "The World Is at Peace"

23. To influence the development of cities, designers must have a clear concept of basic design structures to promote the overall development of urban construction. Process: The methods used in the design of a single building or a group of buildings cannot be applied to the design of an entire city. There are two main reasons: the geographical scope of the city is so large that it is impossible for human thought to formulate clear plans for the entire region. Planning of three-dimensional space; given the scale of a city, the construction and reconstruction of its various parts requires a long historical period. Therefore, any design designed for a local part of a city should be able to be modified and extended to an ever-expanding area. ——(USA) Edmund N. Bacon

24. The fields and trees taught me nothing, but the people in the city taught me a lot. ——Socrates

25. Special emphasis is placed on the fact that the 20th century is entering a new historical era, in which history plays a role for mankind that is no less important than the natural sciences of the 17th century. Natural science teaches humans to control the forces of nature, and history may teach humans to control their own behavior. —— Collingwood

26. All cities are crazy, but they are gorgeous crazy. All cities are beautiful, but coldly beautiful. ——Ke da Moli

27. As humans multiply, technology begins to play a leading role on the earth, and consciously organizing land begins to become more and more important to the quality of life. Pollution harms living systems, and some technological achievements threaten life as a whole. Carelessly cluttering the landscape harms us, but cleverly arranging the site beautifies our lives. Well-organized, colorful living spaces are human resources, like energy, air and water. ——KevinLynch

28. A city is like a flower, a grass or an animal. It should remain unified, harmonious and complete at every stage of its growth. And the result of development should never compromise unity but make it more perfect; harmony should never be compromised but make it more harmonious; the integrity of early structures should be integrated into a more complete structure later built. ——Howard "Tomorrow's Garden City"

29. The trinity of architecture, landscape, and urban planning constitutes the "leading major" in the large system of human settlement environment science.

——Wu Liangyong

30. Because cities are too complex, you can design houses, but you can never design cities, and you shouldn’t design cities. Cities are huge natural phenomena that exceed our ability to change things and our knowledge of how to change them. ——(U.S.) Kevin Lynch

Famous quotes on urban development