"The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life"

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Source : "Property prices are "castrating the whole notion of city life"". Interview with James Pallister, www.dezeen.com. February 24, 2014.

Joseph Rykwert

#Cities Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“I believe no one can afford, endure or can stomach leaving half a life in the parking lot when she or he goes to work. It's a lousy way to live and a lousy way to work.”
“The best years are when you know what you're doing.”
“We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.”
“someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up”
“People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.”

Source : Glenway Wescott (1940). “The pilgrim hawk: a love story”
“I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.”
“My dreams are my work. I design out of the things that I love.”
“We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.”

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