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Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

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If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

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You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.

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Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

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You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

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Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

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I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

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A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Architect

Born: April 7th, 1946

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