Aug
17
2007

quote of the day: a city's face

“…You need only consider the impact of the Guggenheim Museum on Bilbao or the Opera House on Sydney. When talk of the physical shape and the city’s image is dismissed as being merely concerned with the ‘dressing’ for it, with facade, a ‘facing’ for the underlying realities, it is worth remembering that we all get the faces we deserve.”

- Joseph Rykwert, in The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of the City (2000)

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