Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by…

I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds…

— Jose Serrano

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

— Julianne Malveaux

The city of Rio de Janeiro is setting an example to the world of how to recover quality urban spaces through drastic intervention and…

— Santiago Calatrava

Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the…

— Frederick Lenz

Living in areas with a high population density does not need to be synonymous with overcrowding. Manhattan has an extremely dense population and is…

— Mark Walport

During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation…

— Frederick Lenz

By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was…

— Jason Epstein

The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help in this.…

— H. Bentley Glass

“Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behavior, social interaction, and communication. Imagine invisible…

— Susan C. Young

In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.

— P. J. O'Rourke

In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density,…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

“The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region left on…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large…

— Minoru Mori

“The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.”

— Isaac Asimov

What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people…

— Olympia Snowe