Quote by Geoffrey West

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

— Geoffrey West

The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure…

— Martin Filler

“Almost all official statistics and policy documents on wages, income, gross domestic product (GDP), crime, unemployment rates, innovation rates, cost of living indices, morbidity…

— Geoffrey West

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

— Paul Goldberger

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

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

Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and boosts business.

— Alok Sharma

“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

“sublinear scaling and the associated economies of scale arising from optimizing network performance lead to bounded growth and the systematic slowing of the pace…

— Geoffrey West

When I talk about the city, I talk about a city that elevates people, which is the strength of New York. We always had…

— Sal Albanese

“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

“Suburban sprawl has heavily damaged the balance of our cities, divorcing environmental context from design and removing the concept of scale from the creation…

— Avi Friedman

“Cities are efficient when they delegate power to self-determining local groups, or ecosystems. The more that responsibility is delegated, the more efficient they become.…

— Haydn Shaughnessy