Quotations
“We are all pedestrians. This one fact escapes more of us as we remain excessively dependent on our automobiles.” -Richard Untermann
“The idea of the street is more important than the reality of the street” -Peter Smithson
“A city sidewalk by itself is nothing. It is an abstraction.” -Jane Jacobs
“It is important to realize that the terms used—house, streets, etc.—are not to be taken as
the reality but as the idea and that it is our task to find new equivalents for these forms of
association for our non-demonstrative society.” - Peter Smithson
“Functions of city streets: to weave webs of public surveillance and thus to protect strangers as well as themselves; to grow networks of small-scale, everyday public life and thus the
trust and social control; and to help assimilate children into reasonably responsible and tolerant city life” -Jane Jacobs
“The street provides direct access to places of human occupancy, a road does not. To the
extent that the automobile denies such access, the streets become roads.” -Peter Eisenman
“The street has been invalidated by the motor car, rising standards of living and changing
values.” - Theo Crosby
Quotations (Cont.)
“It [is] that new methods of production, new forms of transportation, and new
ways of life demanded new forms of habitation, and that in turn cities would
have to be transformed.” -The Smithsons
“In 1915 the public pedestrian way had shifted in conception to become part of
the building. it is important to note that when this shift occurs it modifies the
form of the building.” -Peter Eisenman’
“The truly great street is one that is representative: it is the epitome of a type; it
can stand for others; it is the best.” -Allan Jacobs
“ In a very elemental way, streets allow people to be outside. Streets are what
constitute the outside for many urbanites.” -Allan Jacobs
“ There are aspects of the street that is measurable, the physical and aspects
that are immeasurable, the socioeconomic.” -Allan Jacobs
The best streets are those that can be remembered. they leave strong, long-continuing positive impressions. -Allan Jacobs
“ The people of cities understand the symbolic, ceremonial, social, and political
roles of streets, not just those of movement and access.” -Allan Jacobs
Precedents of Inspiration
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Las Vegas
Precedents from Research
Images from TP2
Images from TP2 (Cont.)
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