Paul Goldberger quotes

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century. (Paul Goldberger)

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

Paul Goldberger

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

Paul Goldberger

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

Paul Goldberger

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

Paul Goldberger

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing. In fact, it was more than beautiful: it was a nearly canonical piece of abstract graphic design...

Paul Goldberger

Integrity has been enhanced.

Paul Goldberger

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

Paul Goldberger

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

Paul Goldberger

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Occupation: American Author
Born: December 4, 1950
Quotes count: 9
Wikipedia: Paul Goldberger

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