Garden Design and CIty Design Quotes

“Whoever knows how to design a park well will have no difficulty in tracing the plan for the building of a city according to its given area and situation. There must be regularity and fantasy, relationships and oppositions, and casual, unexpected elements that vary the scene; great order in the details, confusion, uproar, and tumult in the whole.”
Observations sur l’Architecture
Abbé Laugier, 1765

“The garden as a criticism of the city and hence a model of the city. This is a theme which has already been introduced and which should deserve attention.”
Collage City
Colin Rowe, 1978

“Gardens have had a strange fate. Their history has almost always anticipated the history of cities.”
Disjunctions
Bernard Tschumi, 1993