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People tend to sit where there are places to sit
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What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.
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The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.
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It’s not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.
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If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.
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Seeds
Want
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The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.
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Rivers
Together
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So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.
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Combat
Problem
Taken
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People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.
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Goal
People
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It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.
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Space
Cities
Urbanization
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Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.
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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.
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Thinking
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The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.
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We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it, and no matter how we fouled it, there was always more over the next hill, or so it seemed.
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Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.
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