A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. When a city accepts as a mandate its quality of life, when it respects the people who live in it, when it respects the environment, when it prepares for future generations, the people share the responsibility for that mandate. This shared cause is the only way to achieve that collective dream.

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

The car is the cigarette of the future.