Useful Quotes

Quotes from:
Richard Rogers, Cities for a small planet

'The city has been viewed as an area for consumerism. The pursuit of this narrow objective has sapped the city of its vitality. The complexity of 'community' has been untangled and public life has been dissected into indivdual components'.

'The emphasis is now on selfishness and separation rather than contact and community'

'The existing streets of the city are drained of commercial life and become little more than a no-man's-land for scurrying pedestrians'

'Presence of people need to be replaced by 'security' and the city itself becomes less hospitable and more alienating'

'Soon our public spaces are percieved as downright dangerous and fear enters the scene'

'The street market becomes less attractive than a secured shopping mall'

'In the twenty first century city the economys reliance on small scale employment and creative exchange will generate far more diversity and personal needs'.