Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.

If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.

People tend to sit where there are places to sit