Moshe Safdie
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"Moshe Safdie", Order of Canada/CC, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects/FAIA is an Israeli/Canada/Canadian/United States/American architect, urban designer, educator, theorist, and author. He is most identified with Habitat 67, which paved the way for his international career.

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I prefer San Francisco to Los Angeles. I prefer New York to Philadelphia. Why? The kind of concentration that is achieved in them creates certain choices, an openness of society that is not possible in the lower-density environments.

Going to share that with the public.

Bringing it to street level, combining it with a park, you bring daylight into it. It's airy. So we save tens of millions of dollars and greatly improve the project experience.

I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they are driven somewhere. I want them to grow up in an environment that is not just a place where people sleep but where people work... and where people enjoy themselves.

I had a sense of the South as a place of great parties and celebration, and there is something about my own romanticism of the South in it.

This is going to make the whole area airy, exciting, green, a place they want to be in.