Basic Quote by Eduardo Paes

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

Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

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

We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to…

— Daniel Libeskind

Cities are complex and contain just about any thing or concept ever invented by humans. How the city is built, its topography, and how…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts;…

— Thomas Jefferson

“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 can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions,…

— Cory Booker

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.

— David Byrne

Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live…

— Susan Maushart

The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are…

— Robert Ardrey

Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than…

— Junot Diaz