The World Motivation
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.
“Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.”
— Toyo Ito · Big Cities
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.
We have to base architecture on the environment.
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.
Dysfunction in Washington has stalled any meaningful federal action on gun control. So it's increasingly up to big cities like New York to take bold steps to get weapons off our streets and change the national discourse.
I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up, has a lot of big cities, like Boston and New York, and is more densely populated, and I instantly fell in love with the big open spaces of the West, where you can see not just for a few miles but for a few hundred miles.
My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.
In other big cities, I can play a series of sold-out one-nighters at various comedy clubs, but Detroit's the only place in the world I regularly play sold-out back-to-back weeks at different clubs!