Bigger Quote by Geoffrey West Download Open image “The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.” — Geoffrey West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bigger City Infrastructure Less Need Per You
“So in marked contrast to infrastructure, which scales sublinearly with population size, socioeconomic quantities—the very essence of a city—scale superlinearly, thereby manifesting systematic increasing… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Cities require connectivity rather than territory in order to drive their economic stability and growth.” — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people. — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
In states where there's one really big city, a lot of outlying counties and smaller towns really don't have very many resources. — Jonathan Van Ness Copy Share Image
It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go. — Dan Gilbert Copy Share Image
The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
“Individual cities that now do the same thing can reap the benefits. So this isn’t complicated: the most educated people who plug into the… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on. — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“While exponential growth is a remarkable manifestation of our extraordinary accomplishments as a species, built into it are the potential seeds of our demise… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“The system we have evolved critically relies on people continually wanting new cars and new cell phones, new widgets and gadgets, new clothes and… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Cities are sustained by similar network systems such as roads, railways, and electrical lines that transport people, energy, and resources and whose flow is… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, then, the most surprising consequence of a visionary Theory of Everything is that it implies that on the grand scale the universe, including… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The integration of these two kinds of networks, namely, the requirement that socioeconomic interaction represented by space-filling fractal-like social networks must be anchored to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?” — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
In China, people are moving from bigger cars to small hatches, and interestingly, the Indian market is graduating to bigger cars and sedans. I… — Winfried Vahland Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Max—you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what… — Dave Willis Copy Share Image
If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form. — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
