#cityquote

[luvlypait]

Cebu City, Philippines

[bruvu]

A smarter way to build cities might be for architects and urban planners to have psychologists and ethnographers on the team.

Jonathan Rez, 2015 The truth about smart cities: ‘In the end, they will destroy democracy’ | Cities | The Guardian by Steven Poole

[bruvu]

I have never yet seen a smart-home design that would make a two-year-old happier and healthier. They're not about "smartness," they are frozen digital reifications of the power relationships that are already there.

Bruce Sterling, 2015

The WELL: Bruce Sterling, Cory Doctorow & Jon Lebkowsky: State Of The World 2015

[rotterdamcityblog]

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

[rotterdamcityblog]

City Quote #001

[bruvu]

You can’t just plug an urban scheme into a grid and wait for results. You need community, solidarity and civic virtue.

Jason Farago, 2014

One World Trade Center: how New York tried to rebuild its soul, The Guardian

[bruvu]

Cities are not really agglomerations of people; they’re agglomerations of connections between people.

Luis Bettencourt, 2013

Reported by Emily Badger Scientific Proof That Cities Are Like Nothing Else in Nature - The Atlantic Cities

[bruvu]

I think the reason that the audience got so into it is that everyone intuitively knows the rules of the game when it comes to cities.

Stone Librande, 2013

The Philosophy of SimCity: An Interview With the Game's Lead Designer - Geoff Manaugh & Nicola Twilley - The Atlantic