“Nothing is experienced by itself, but always in relation to its surroundings, the sequences of events leading up to it, the memory of past experiences.” (Kevin Lynch “The Image of the City” pg.1)
“We need institutions that shall more directly assist the poor and degraded to elevate themselves. Our educational principle must be enlarged and made to include more than these miserable common schools. The poor and wicked need more than to be left alone.” Frederick Law Olmsted
“To raise productivity, one deals first with the limiting factor. ” John T. Lyle
“What begins as undifferentiated space becomes place as we get to know it better and endow it with value.” Yi-Fu Tuan “Space and Place”
“We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.” Rem Koolhaas
“There is chaos at the heart of creation, and yet the disorder and disintegration may be balanced by creative acts wrought from the human imagination.” Phil Cousineau reiterating the idea of Buckminster Fuller that, “We are exquisite entropy.”
“Unpopular and devalued places can become popular and valued and vice-versa. Their qualitative features are the result of social valuation, not the cause.” Mira Engler “Designing America’s Waste Landscapes”
“Margins‘ have become signifiers of everything ‘centres’ deny or repress.” “At the same time that the center rejects the debasing “low,” it also desires it.” Rob Shields and Mira Engler “Designing America’s Waste Landscapes
