City Quotes by Geoffrey West

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.

— Geoffrey West

A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.

— Geoffrey West

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

— Geoffrey West

It's hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.

— Geoffrey West

“The city as the engine for social change and increasing well-being is one of the truly great triumphs of our amazing ability…

— Geoffrey West

You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components -…

— Geoffrey West

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

— Geoffrey West

“The two dominant components that constitute a city, its physical infrastructure and its socioeconomic activity, can both be conceptualized as approximately self-similar…

— Geoffrey West

We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from…

— Geoffrey West

“It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and…

— Geoffrey West

We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create from…

— Geoffrey West

Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's…

— Geoffrey West

If you ask people why they move to the city, they always give the same reasons. They've come to get a job…

— Geoffrey West

“The integration of these two kinds of networks, namely, the requirement that socioeconomic interaction represented by space-filling fractal-like social networks must be…

— Geoffrey West

When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially…

— Geoffrey West

“Cities are sustained by similar network systems such as roads, railways, and electrical lines that transport people, energy, and resources and whose…

— Geoffrey West

“All socioeconomic activity in cities involves the interaction between people. Employment, wealth creation, innovation and ideas, the spread of infectious diseases, health…

— Geoffrey West