Barriers Quote by Alex Steffen

If we're going to make a city everybody can live in for a lifetime, we need to make sure we are building and growing…

— Betsy Hodges

“Unfortunately, there is no rule saying a city must be a nice place to live in order to attract fast population and economic growth.…

— Laurence C. Smith

Cities have to realize that whatever the federal government is going to do, its not going to be enough. And cities that proactively take…

— Mick Cornett

Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the…

— Alex Steffen

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 may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

— Bob Goodlatte

Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment.…

— Ban Ki-moon

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

— Manmohan Singh

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

— Jane Jacobs

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

City farming is not only possible, it is the very definition of the kind of meaningful, sustainable innovation we will need to meet the…

— Frans van Houten