Quote by Geoffrey West

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

— Paul Goldberger

“The two dominant components that constitute a city, its physical infrastructure and its socioeconomic activity, can both be conceptualized as approximately self-similar fractal-like network…

— Geoffrey West

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

— Jaime Lerner

“Cities require connectivity rather than territory in order to drive their economic stability and growth.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into the ecosystems…

— Annalee Newitz

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

— Geoffrey West

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

Cities are magical things. You know the energy in them. You have to walk the streets in any borough here and you can see…

— Juan Enriquez

“A city is half beast and half machine, with arteries of fresh water and veins of foul, nerves of telephone and electrical cables, sewer…

— Dean Koontz

Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of…

— Alex Steffen

“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models.…

— Cristina Martin

Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk…

— John Norquist