Cities Quote by Geoffrey West

The main issue of cities is to tackle climate change and it is the issue of the current and next generations. Sustainability cannot be…

— Park Won-soon

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 not problems. They are solutions.

— Jaime Lerner

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

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 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

Cities are central to the shaping and delivery of national policy objectives, and in return, they are the places where social, environmental, and economic…

— Mark Walport

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

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require…

— Will Wright

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

Fifty percent of the world's population lives in cities. In a couple of decades, 70 percent of the world's population will be living in…

— Michael Bloomberg

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they…

— Jane Jacobs