In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.

We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

— Whitey Herzog

Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new ideas of…

— Jane Jacobs

Cities need to act aggressively to hit their housing goals - that's what I'm doing. But I think you want to ensure that you…

— Kevin Faulconer

Cities need to reinvent themselves in order to stay alive.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they…

— Alex Steffen

Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than…

— Junot Diaz

We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They need a…

— Narendra Modi

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.

— John Henry Cox

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they…

— Jane Jacobs

The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by…

— Patricia Ireland

“There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities…

— Jane Jacobs

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to…

— Jane Jacobs

What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to…

— Henry Giroux

Texas Gov. Rick Perry referred to the Mexican city of Juarez as the most dangerous city in America. In his defense, he probably just…

— Jay Leno

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern…

— Martin Filler