Bigger Quote by Alan Dundes

Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by…

— Geoffrey West

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

“It isn’t just the US: the half of the world’s population that lives in urban areas generates more than 80 percent of global output,…

— Charles Kenny

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents,…

— Hari Sreenivasan

How people move around their city is a big deal. It affects productivity, security, health, and global warming, among other things.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the…

— Stone Gossard

Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.

— Bjarke Ingels

Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly,…

— Jack Dangermond

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially…

— Lawrence Halprin

By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon…

— Eduardo Paes

Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change…

— Li Keqiang

Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into the ecosystems…

— Annalee Newitz