Plato undervalued the vital stimuli and challenges to growth: variety, disorder, conflict, tension, weakness, and even temporary failure. Each of these, if it does not harden into a fixed pattern, may produce a far more desirable community than any mode of conformity, whether that conformity be imposed by the philistine executives of a modern government agency or business corporation aided by electronic computers…The dialectic opposition of good and evil is not the whole of life: there are processes of physiological change and maturation, of physical disruption and eruption, that have little to do with it. But to overlook the place of dialectic in the polis is to overlook the city’s main function: the enlargement in human consciousness of the drama of life itself, through whose enactment existence discloses fresh meanings, not given by any momentary analysis or repetitious statistical order.
-Lewis Mumford, The City in History
This building should never be built. Miami 21 needs to be implemented, and Miami needs to start finding money to build light rail. Cities should not be built around garages and parking lots, they should be built around sustainable downtown regions, and responsible planning.
- Julian Kasdin, on a proposed 20 story parking garage and billboards .
When: 2:00 pm
Where: City of Miami City Hall, 3500 Panamerican Drive
“The point of cities is multiplicity of choice”
- Jane Jacobs
The forces of change whose emblem is the bulldozer, and the forces of preservation whose totem is the tree, are everywhere at war in this country…
-Joel Garreau (1991) Edge Cities
“There is no such thing as a natural level of car use. The number of cars used in the city is a political decision. Traffic problems don’t come from more cars, they come from more roads…”
-Former Mayor of Bogota Enrique Penalosa
“Growth is inevitable and desirable, but destruction of community character is not. The question is not whether your part of the world is going to change. The question is how.”
- Edward T. McMahon
“Higher density housing offers an inferior lifestyle only when it is without a community as its setting.”- Andres Duany
- William Whyte
“Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.”
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