Planning Jargon

“It’s a two-fisted drinking town, a carnivorous meat-eating town, it’s dirty and nasty and wonderful.” — Anthony Bourdain on eating in San Francisco [photo via Adrienne Arsht Center...

“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one...

“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” — Eleanor Roosevelt on (financial) planning Okay, well Eleanor Roosevelt’s quote was really about responsible financial planning,...

The grid is “a transcontinental triumph of the abstract over the particular.” — Daniel Solomon on the grid, as in James Howard Kunstler’s The Geography Of Nowhere (30) [image via...

“It is the total environment made visible.” — Suzanne Langer’s definition of architecture, Feeling And Form: A Theory Of Art (1953)