Quote by Bernardo Kliksberg

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

— John Ciardi

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which…

— George Bernard Shaw

“If the neighborhood were to lose the industries, it would be a disaster for us residents. Many enterprises, unable to exist on residential trade…

— Jane Jacobs

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.

— Wendell Berry

“One of the drawbacks of upward social mobility is a sense of guilty indebtedness to the old neighborhood.”

— Mary Gordon

“Overcrowding, which is one symptom of the population instability, continues. It continues, not because the overcrowded people remain, but because they leave. Too many…

— Jane Jacobs

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one,

— Majora Carter

“If a social and democratic city is going to be built again, it will most probably be built by those who have no investment…

— Owen Hatherley

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

— Thomas Friedman

The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.

— George Herbert

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

— Ice Cube

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of…

— Harvey Milk