Behinds Quote by Edward Glaeser

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

Each city has strengths. Cities should be developed with their own individuality and characteristics.

— Park Won-soon

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 are the greatest creations of humanity.

— Daniel Libeskind

A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and…

— Charles Abrams

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. When a city accepts as a mandate its quality of…

— Jaime Lerner

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

“It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and thereby to…

— Geoffrey West

“The city as the engine for social change and increasing well-being is one of the truly great triumphs of our amazing ability to form…

— Geoffrey West

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

The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people.

— Alan Autry

“So the city emerges as man’s ultimate attempt to become manmade, born from himself rather than from Mother Nature. The feeling of self-sufficiency he…

— Monica Sjöö