The bigger the city, the lonelier it is. -Latin
Being born in a famous city is the first condition for a person's happiness. -euripides
For a city, the most important thing is not architecture, but planning. —— I.M. Pei
This plain city is a calm lake. Gently drown the period. -Annie, baby
6, musicians, the sum of heaven and earth; Ceremony is the order of heaven and earth. Harmony, so everything is transformed. -"Rites and Music"
7. Urban ecological security is an important aspect of ecological security. Ecological security is also a kind of national security. Nowadays, among the factors threatening national security, the ecological environment is a prominent aspect. Environmental pollution, ecological refugees, resource wars, environmental health and other issues seriously threaten national interests, and government policies and economic development pay more and more attention to the ecological environment. Therefore, ecological security has become an important part of national security. —— Ouyang Zhiyun
8. Cities must never spread like ink stains or oil stains. Once they develop, they should be star-shaped like flowers, alternating with green leaves in the golden light. Patrick. Geddes's The Evolving City
9, the city itself is regarded as a sad economic need, uncontrolled expansion to the countryside. Trees and farms have been destroyed, which makes room for houses and factories or large-scale comprehensive agricultural management, and water, air and soil have been polluted. This degradation may be irreversible, and lead to some disastrous results: man-made deserts, ocean pollution by waste, sudden change of climate, mass extinction of species, or air unfit for breathing. Therefore, cities are considered as a fundamental threat to our living environment. kevin lynch
10, the city, as a material manifestation, is a visible material form. Urban planning is the goal and plan of development in a certain period of time and the comprehensive deployment of urban construction. Its purpose is to provide residents with a good working, living, entertainment and transportation environment through the overall study of the city and its surrounding areas.
1 1. Don't forget that compared with thousands of years of rural civilization, human urban civilization has only a short history of more than 200 years, and China's urbanization history is even shorter. In a sense, we or our close ancestors are all rural people.
12, the Bible tells us how the world developed: from a garden to a holy city in China. -Brusk
13, "community" is a group, which is composed of a group of people who are interrelated, have the same interests or ties, and have the same region. -F.M. Rogers, L.J. Bodger.
14. Every community should be an independent society with as much autonomy as possible. The community should be a whole, not only looks like a whole, but also is a whole in fact. It should have an optimal scale, and this scale will not become unreasonable. kevin lynch
15, want to be famous but don't want to know the world, live in the countryside; If you want to know the world without being understood, you should live in a city. -kolton
16. Evaluating a city depends on how many bookstores it has. -(Russia) Rubinstein
17. It took more than 5,000 years for human beings to have a partial understanding of the essence and evolution of cities, but it may take longer to fully understand the potential features that have not yet been recognized. At the beginning of human history, the city has developed into a mature form. In order to have a deeper understanding of the present situation of the city, we must browse the historical skyline, investigate those vaguely discernible traces, and explore the ancient structure and original functions of the city, which is the primary responsibility of our city 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 divorced from nature and natural ecosystems. In modern cities, people only need touch switch to use energy, water is controlled by faucets, resources from all over the world can be bought in supermarkets, and garbage can be washed away or collected outside. In fact, the environmental consequences of our urban lifestyle are hidden or packaged and placed far away. As a result, in cities, people have little activity mechanism to pursue a lifestyle that causes little damage to the relative environment, because the advantages of this lifestyle are hidden from them. -"English" David Ludlin
19. Any reasonable urban planning must be regional planning. Lewis mumford
20. Is there too much money to spend in our colleges and universities? Actually, it's not, or even the opposite. Many colleges and universities in China have become "debtors" of banks, and some colleges and universities have loans as high as 654.38+0 billion or even 2 billion yuan. According to the data provided by the Blue Book published by China Academy of Social Sciences, the total amount of loans from universities to banks is about (654.38+0.500-2000) billion yuan. Due to the high loan amount, with the arrival of the repayment peak, some colleges and universities have no repayment ability. At the same time, the proportion of poor college students in China is about 20%, and they are also in urgent need of help. —— Excerpt from "Strive to Build a Luxury Door and Reflect the Loss of University Spirit"
2 1. All along, cities have been expanding outward along the regional edges, and newly formed residential areas have gradually merged into the original urban areas. With the passage of time, suburbs and villages that were once regarded as outside the boundaries of cities have now been stuffed into the bellies of major cities. -Formation of streets and towns
22. The competitiveness of a country depends on four elements: infrastructure, education, government and a good environment. China has done well in the first three aspects, but the environment is a disaster. -Thomas L. Friedman, author of The World Is Peaceful.
23. To influence the development of the city, designers should have a clear concept of basic design structure to promote the whole process of urban construction: the methods in the design of a single building or a group of buildings cannot be applied to the design of the whole city for two main reasons: the geographical scope of the city is too large, and people's thoughts cannot make a clear three-dimensional spatial plan for the whole region; As far as the scale of a city is concerned, the construction and transformation of its various parts need a long historical period. Therefore, any design used in urban areas should be able to be modified and extended to the expanding areas. -(America) Edmund Bacon
The fields and trees didn't teach me any lessons, but the people in the city taught me many lessons. -Socrates
25. It is particularly emphasized that the 20th century is entering a new historical era, in which the role of historiography is no less than that of natural science in17th century. Natural science teaches human beings to control natural forces, while history may teach human beings to control their own behavior. -collingwood
26. All cities are crazy, but they are gorgeous crazy. All the cities are beautiful, but they are all cold and beautiful. -g Damori
27. With the proliferation of human beings, technology began to play a leading role on the earth, and consciously organizing land became more and more important for the quality of life. Pollution damages the survival system, and some technological achievements threaten the whole life. Carelessly disturbing the landscape environment brings us harm, and cleverly arranging the base to beautify our life. Orderly and colorful living space is human resources, just like energy, air and water. ——KevinLynch
28. A city is like a flower, a grass or an animal. Every stage of its growth should be unified, harmonious and complete. Moreover, the result of development should never damage unity, but should make unity more perfect; Harmony should never be destroyed, but should be made more harmonious; The structural integrity of the early stage should be integrated into a more complete structure in the future. -Howard's Garden City of Tomorrow
29. The trinity of architecture, landscape and urban planning constitutes the "leading specialty" in the scientific system of human settlements. -Wu
Because cities are too complicated, you can design houses, but you can never design cities, and you shouldn't design cities. The city is a huge natural phenomenon, which is beyond our ability to change things and how we know how to change the city. kevin lynch
Famous sayings of urban development