In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing. It is more and more important to make the cities inviting, so we can meet our fellow citizens face to face and experience directly through our senses. Public life in good quality public spaces is an important part of a democratic life and a full life.

First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.

If you make more roads, you will have more traffic.

Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants, and Bengal tigers and panda bears in China…you hardly see anything on the habitat of man in the urban environment.

Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.

Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top.