Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.
If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.
A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.
Cities are not problems. They are solutions.
Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.
Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.
We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.
We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.
The design of a city is like a strange archeology.
Brazil will change when its cities change.