“Cities Can Provide Something For Everybody, When They Are Created By Everybody.” — #JaneJacobs | #voteTO #TOpoli pic.twitter.com/SLMbWyBSEM
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 5, 2014
@HiMYSYeD Thought-provoking quote in light of T.O.’s post-amalgamation power tug-of-war – who is everybody? How do u reconcile differences?
— David Rider (@dmrider) September 7, 2014
@HiMYSYeD This city isn’t even brave enough to meet with community leaders! How cowardly is that? #TOpoli
— Patrick Smyth (@MisterSafetytoe) September 8, 2014
“The city must cease acting out of fear that investment will flow elsewhere if it stops coddling developers.” – @Fred_Kent | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 6, 2014
“If you want creative solutions, cut one zero from your budget. If you want sustainability, cut two zeros.” – @JaimeLerner | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 7, 2014
“A City is Not Gauged by its Length & Width, But by The Broadness of its Vision and The Height of its Dreams.” – #HerbCaen | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 8, 2014
There’s No Place in a City That Can’t Improve. No Toad That Can’t Be a Princess, No Frog That Can’t Become a Prince – @JaimeLerner | #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 8, 2014
“Each New Muni’ Admin Owes its Citizens The Legacy of An Idea that Resonates Before & After The Clang of Turnstiles” P.G. Di Cicco | #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 8, 2014
“In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. Called the moon illusion.” — @neiltyson | #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 9, 2014
“If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you’re going to have a musical comedy administration.” — Robert Moses | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 9, 2014
@HiMYSYeD For the past 4 years I have watched Rob Ford’s song and dance routine, the show bombed and is scheduled to close on Oct.27th
— robert reid (@ReidRobert189) September 9, 2014
“If your political idea is so palatable that everyone is going to vote for it immediately, it’s not going to change anything.” — @SethGodin
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 9, 2014
“The city is a fossil fuel construct in search of rapid restructuring.” — Peter Droege | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 9, 2014
People Should Not Feel Inferior if They Are on A Bike. Public Good Must Always Prevail Over The Private – @EnriquePenalosa | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 9, 2014
“Cycling is only a more efficient way of walking.” — @EnriquePenalosa | #voteTO #TOpoli #bikeTO
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 9, 2014
@HiMYSYeD @EnriquePenalosa Imho not enough attention is given to making cities truly walkable, from one end to the other.
— Susan (@SusanFelicity) September 30, 2014
Globalization Creates a More Homogenized Urban Experience as Increasingly Cities are Dominated by ‘Non-Places’ – Marc Augé | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 13, 2014
“There Will Be No Sustainable World Without Sustainable Cities.” — #HerbertGirardet, Urban Ecologist | #TOpoli #voteTO #cdnMUNI
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 13, 2014
“With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed…” — #MarcoPolo | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 13, 2014
‘Price cities have always paid for success is congested streets; solutions sometimes as bad as problem itself’ – @PD_Smith | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 15, 2014
“Throughout history, the growth of cities was a sign of increasing average wealth. This is no longer the case” – @PD_Smith | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 15, 2014
“All Bureaucracies Make Mistakes, But Megacity Bureaucracies Tend to Make Big, Big Mistakes. … — #JaneJacobs | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 17, 2014
..What Is Worse, They Tend Thereafter To Be Paralyzed With Respect to Correcting or Learning From Mistakes.” – #JaneJacobs | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 17, 2014
@HiMYSYeD Time to de-amalgamate TO into to the City with sidewalks & the City without sidewalks #TOpoli
— B. Traven (@btravennt) September 17, 2014
Comments usually started with “What the Hell. . .” end with “Why do you think we are paying taxes anyway?” — #AndreCarrel | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 17, 2014
“It is so easy to be wrong–and continue being wrong–when the cost of being wrong is paid for by others.” – #ThomasSowell | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 17, 2014
‘Municipal Council & Band Council control reflected in Ministry names: Municipal Affairs & Indian Affairs’ — #AndreCarrel | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 17, 2014
I used to be able to drive around U.S. Cities & tell you what version of AutoCAD was used to design each building – @Bernstein_ADSK |#TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 18, 2014
“There are Extreme Parallels Between Ant Colonies and The Layers of Infrastructure in Modern Cities…” — @AnilDash | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 18, 2014
Encountered Worker #Ants while Climbing Cerro Nutibara in #Medellín this morning… https://t.co/PKHL6JDHKg #nature #zen
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) March 19, 2014
Should be possible to build a city & region where you can go your whole life without owning a car & not feel deprived – Paul Bedford|#TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 18, 2014
@StephenDaCambra @HiMYSYeD Or ostracized.
— Douglas Yardley (@douglasyardley) September 20, 2014
“The Car, went from a Tool of Use, to a Tool of Abuse. A Driver’s License is No Longer a Right of Passage” – @KGreenbergTO | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 19, 2014
“Paradigm Shift, New N. American Dream: Living somewhere where you can walk to Groceries & Public Transit” – @KGreenbergTO | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 19, 2014
@HiMYSYeD @KGreenbergTO “Rules are meant to be broken.” Chief Planner Toronto. The Vancouverisation of TO continues? #TOpoli
— Patrick Smyth (@MisterSafetytoe) September 19, 2014
“Some of the magic of medicine can & should be applied to Cities, many of them are ailing & some are almost terminal” – @JaimeLerner|#TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 19, 2014
“When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible.” — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 20, 2014
“A city without passion is just a city of artistic events.” — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 20, 2014
“A city’s art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.” — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 20, 2014
“True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster..” – Pier Giorgio Di Cicco | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 20, 2014
“..To foster the incentive to create again and again as a spontaneous civic gesture of expression” – Pier Giorgio Di Cicco | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 20, 2014
“A city’s greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter” – Pier Giorgio Di Cicco |#voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 20, 2014
There’s No Big City in The World the size #Toronto is becoming, where the car is primary mode of transport – @KGreenbergTO | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 22, 2014
@HiMYSYeD @KGreenbergTO Los Angeles?
— Paul Smith (@PaulSmithTO) September 22, 2014
“I’ll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me!” — Homer Simpson (Aired August 19, 2006) | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 24, 2014
“Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours & tall tales were a kind of charting” – Michael Ondaatje |#TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 24, 2014
Cities however small, are in fact divided into two, one of the poor, the other of the rich. They are at war with one another – Plato|#TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 24, 2014
“You will never be mayor of this city because you say stupid and dumb things!” — Mel Lastman to @IamDavidMiller in 2002 | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 24, 2014
A City whose boosters rely on the adjective “world-class” can’t be; World-Class, in short, is Self-Evident & Unspoken – James Adams |#TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 24, 2014
@HiMYSYeD Galaxy class! … I’ll show myself out.
— Enter your real name (@vickersty) September 24, 2014
1975: Developing World has 110 Cities with populations of one million people. Developed countries, 85 Cities with 1Mn pop. | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 25, 2014
1990: Thirty cities have populations of more than five million people. | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 25, 2014
1995: Developing World, 250 cities of one million plus people. Developed countries, 114 cities reach one million plus populations. | #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 25, 2014
2000: There are 17 Mega-Cities in the World, each with at least 10 Million People. Tokyo has 24 Million living inside it. | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 25, 2014
1998: Seven ( NOT the oft-repeated factually incorrect Six ) entities are Amalgamated into this New “Megacity” of Toronto. | #voteTO #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 25, 2014
@HiMYSYeD And don’t forget the seven school boards! #TOpoli
— sandy carroll (@papa723) September 25, 2014
@HiMYSYeD time to de-amalgamate to 2 Cities. The City with sidewalks & the City w/o sidewalks #TOpoli 1/2
— B. Traven (@btravennt) September 25, 2014
@HiMYSYeD How you get around the city determines how you view it’s institutions & social infrastructure. #TOpoli
— B. Traven (@btravennt) September 25, 2014
Tickle the stars While the sun’s climbing high, Then skyscraper, skyscraper Scape me some sky. — Dennis Lee | #TOpoli #voteTO
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 26, 2014
The city round us hums like bees And buses dart like dragonflies Between the reedbeds of the trees. — Christine Crow | #TOpoli #voteTO
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 26, 2014
Will soon appear with her bag of crumbs To feed the water birds on the lake by the fountain. — Christine Crow | #TOpoli #voteTO
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 26, 2014
I could lie on their backs like a lovely armchair And fly away almost anywhere.” — Christine Crow | #TOpoli #voteTO
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 26, 2014
…and the top-down kind of politics will never again be as dominant. — @GlenPearson | #TOpoli #voteTO #cdnMUNI
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 30, 2014
that often have similar pursuits, needs, and guiding principles.” — @GlenPearson | #TOpoli #voteTO #cdnMUNI
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 30, 2014
Redesigning roadways with lower traffic volumes to add space for Cyclists+Pedestrians reduces traffic crashes 29% on average -US DOT|#TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 1, 2014
"Every city has its own set of advantages & disadvantages, & the key is understanding the nuances of your own location." – @harleyf |#TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 2, 2014
Stop txting me saying you’re having a city planning emergency. There’s no such thing as a city planning emergency -Mark Brendanawicz|#TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 2, 2014
@HiMYSYeD WTF?
— Erich Nolan Bertussi (@ENBertussi) October 2, 2014
@ENBertussi Fictional character in comedy Parks & Recreation (@parksandrecnbc); the city planner for Pawnee, Indiana: http://t.co/c68qu0xOw4
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 2, 2014
“We Japanese do not perceive our small, one-room spaces as something that’s been forced upon us” – Makoto Yokomizo | #TOpoli #voteTO #cities
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 2, 2014
Outcome of the city depends on the race between the automobile & the elevator; anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy – Frank Lloyd Wright
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 2, 2014
is the triumph of the unnatural over the natural, the grid over the organic…
— Bruce Mau | #TOpoli #voteTO #cities
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 2, 2014
is the liberation of vast depopulated territories for the efficient production of ‘nature’.”
– Bruce Mau (@brucemaudesign)|#TOpoli #cities
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 2, 2014
…So if the ground floor is rich, the city is rich and it doesn't matter what you do further up."
– Jan Gehl | #voteTO #TOpoli #cities
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 3, 2014
… it doesn't matter what's further up because nobody sees that."
– Ralph Erskine
#TOpoli #voteTO | #Cities | http://t.co/191SZaVQUb
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 3, 2014
"Cities are Built Half by Planning… And Half by Accident."
— A.M. Syed, Ph.D. | #TOpoli #voteTO #cities
http://t.co/191SZaVQUb
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 3, 2014
"A great city is that which has the greatest men and women."
— Walt Whitman
#TOpoli #voteTO | #Cities | http://t.co/B1cj3l7EIC
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 7, 2014
"Some cities are women and must be loved;
others are men and can only be admired or bargained with."
— Angela Carter
#TOpoli #voteTO
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 7, 2014
"Toronto is not a city.
It's a world."
— HiMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD)
#voteTO #TOpoli | #cities
http://t.co/B1cj3l7EIC
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 7, 2014
"Delhi has changed from a cynical city to a city of hope."
— Sheila Dikshit
http://t.co/191SZaVQUb
#voteTO #TOpoli #cities
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 9, 2014
Being Mayor is an Occupation fit only for Comedians with Deadly Serious Civic Goals..
— @AntanasMockus
#voteTO #TOpoli #cdnMUNI #cities
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 9, 2014
…Being Mayor is an Occupation fit only for Artists who want to Move Mountains.
— @AntanasMockus
#voteTO #TOpoli #cdnMUNI #cities
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 9, 2014
"The car is the cigarette of the future. You can use it, but people will be annoyed by you."
— @JamieLerner
| #voteTO #TOpoli #cdnMUNI
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 11, 2014
"Designing a dream city is easy.
Re-building a living one takes imagination."
— #JaneJacobs
| #voteTO #TOpoli | http://t.co/191SZaVQUb
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 12, 2014
And, as usual in my dreams, I was a little girl again.
A little girl in Toronto with long golden curls."
— Mary Pickford (06/22/1968)
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 12, 2014
Going to College in Chicagoland
I learned their for-Chi-Town-only-ears city motto:
"If you can't make it here, you can't make it anywhere"
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 14, 2014
When a City Faces Decisions about Public Works that Could Do More Harm Than Good,
Doing Nothing is the Most Urgent Priority
- @JaimeLerner
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 14, 2014
"A city should allow people not only to meet, but also to be found."
- @JaimeLerner.
http://t.co/191SZaVQUb
|#TOpoli #RespectForEverybody
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 14, 2014
#UrbanAcupuncture with @JaimeLerner at @UrbanspaceTO Gallery in @401Richmond Building…
https://t.co/ZXdEUYUFl5
| #TOpoli #voteTO #cities
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 21, 2014
Margie Zeidler welcomes @JaimeLerner to @UrbanspaceTO Gallery, @401Richmond Building…
https://t.co/GLU4gBBNx4
| #TOpoli #voteTO #cities
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 21, 2014
For 45 minutes @JaimeLerner waxes #UrbanAcupuncture to Toronto City Builders…
https://t.co/YuYWQsntcE
| #TOpoli #voteTO #cities #cdnMUNI
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 21, 2014
Chief Planner @jen_keesmaat discusses #UrbanAcupuncture with @JaimeLerner & Former Mayor @david_crombie
https://t.co/LOJzNZBuRv
| #TOpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 21, 2014
Ontario Minister for Climate Change Glen Murray (@Glen4ONT) with @David_Crombie & @JaimeLerner.
https://t.co/vhrtfKTJkh
| #TOpoli #ONpoli
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 21, 2014
With @JaimeLerner as he signs #UrbanAcupuncture for me in @UrbanspaceTO Gallery at @401Richmond.
https://t.co/YZfC9eZnOu
| #TOpoli #cities
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 21, 2014
Former Mayor of Curitiba @JaimeLerner signs #UrbanAcupuncture with best wishes for me in #voteTO
https://t.co/IfuwQiSQWg
|#TOpoli #cdnMUNI
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 21, 2014
To
HiMY SYeD
future mayor
my best wishes
@JaimeLerner
20 . 10 . 14
https://t.co/x0DC7qEUg7
| #TOpoli #voteTO #cdnMUNI #UrbanAcupuncture
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) October 21, 2014
HiMY SYeD for Toronto – Mayoral Candidate 2014: The “Cities” Collection — http://t.co/191SZaVQUb | #voteTO #TOpoli #bikeTO #cdnMUNI #Cities
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) September 13, 2014