Quotes by Jaime Lerner

Jaime Lerner

Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.

Car

Cities

Problem

Every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.

Cities

Three

Years

I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, ‘But, how do you do it?’ They are scared to death to do anything.

Guy

Running

Writing

I always try to say, ‘If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.’

Car

Trying

Two

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don’t want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

Cities

Jobs

Years

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won’t have traffic problems.

Alternatives

Problem

Traffic

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

Creativity

Two

Zero

Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don’t understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.

Cities

Giving

Space

The car is the cigarette of the future.

Car

Cigarette

The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

Cities

Problem

Solutions

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Dream

Eco

Ego

Forever

Fungi

Giving

Government Bureaucracy

Guy

Ideas

Jobs

Landfills

Latin

Law

Mother

Noble

People

Problem

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Responsibility

Running

Secret

Solutions

Space

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Structure

Taken

Tears

Three

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Tree

Trying

Two

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Quotes by Jaime Lerner

Jaime Lerner

Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.

Every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.

I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, ‘But, how do you do it?’ They are scared to death to do anything.

I always try to say, ‘If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.’

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don’t want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won’t have traffic problems.

If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don’t understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.

The car is the cigarette of the future.

The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

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