"The biggest thing growing cities need to do……" — Alex Steffen
"The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they can get permitted quickly and get building quickly."
—
Alex Steffen
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
37 Quotes by Alex Steffen
Alex Steffen has 37 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people…
-
We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home…
-
By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.
-
You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form…
-
Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.
-
It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.
-
Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing…
-
There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.
-
To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is…
-
Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.
-
There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club.…
-
Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.
See all 37 quotes by Alex Steffen »
More Barriers Quotes
This quote is filed under Barriers Quotes,
one of 630 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
— David Bailey
-
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone,…
— Emily Greene Balch
-
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
— Ludwig van Beethoven
-
The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing…
— Eli Broad
-
I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on…
— Alton Brown
-
The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose…
— Herman Cain
-
Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow…
— Herman Cain
-
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social…
— Noam Chomsky
-
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
— Maya Angelou
-
Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes,…
— Rajneesh
-
Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.
— Robert Breault
-
So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the…
— Michael Chertoff
See all 630 Barriers Quotes »