Because Quote by Bjarke Ingels

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous…

— Alan Dundes

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

In the 1950s and '60s, America's natural resources were in bad shape. Communities were so polluted that clouds of smog lingered over cities like…

— John F. Kerry

Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been fortunate so…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.

— Jimmy Gomez

We have to address the issues which prevent clean cities, clean rivers, regular, uninterrupted supply of essentials like water and electricity.

— Narendra Modi

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the…

— Barry Commoner

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping…

— Alex Steffen

We have to get smarter about our cities. Especially when it comes to the most basic of public services - water supply.

— Rohini Nilekani