Carmen Shields

“Most of the time when we widen freeways, or elevate freeways, we use public money to devalue private real estate. It doesn’t sound very American to me.” - Peter Park, City of Denver community manager

“What you’ve got, with the suburban living arrangement, and all of its accessories, can be described as the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world […] It is a living arrangement that doesn’t have a future.” - James Howard Kunstler, New Urbanist

“One of the biggest mistakes in land-use planning was in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, where we segregated housing from commercial development, from industrial development. And by the way, it was not just the developer doing this, it was the consumer doing it. We wanted to segregate ourselves in separate units, and then we had to depend upon the car, then, to get to work, to back home, and vice versa, or to get to the hospital, or to get home from the grocery store. We designed it in a way that we forced ourselves to use the automobile.” - Mayor Pat McCoy, Charlotte, NC

“In a way, we have to reinvent what we had naturally in our US cities prior to World War II, given that they were all based on streetcar suburbs and urban centers that had heavy investment in public transit. Of course, we ripped all that out after World War II and destroyed it. So now we have to develop our way back to it.”

“So only mixed income, mixed age group neighborhoods, really survive over the long-term, and succeed over the long-term.”

- Peter Calthorpe, Principal, Urban Planner/Calthorpe Associates

this one was still in my drafts… 

Q: With the immigration ban, there have been attacks on diversity, which has been a trademark of Silicon Valley…