Cities Quote by George Bernard Shaw

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization… Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in…

— Aldous Huxley

“compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high school or college graduates, homeowners, and not…

— J.D. Vance

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

— Josiah Strong

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose…

— Adam Davidson

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

— James Norman Hall

“It is commonly thought that high-poverty neighborhoods are socially fragmented and suffer a weak sense of community, but that is mistaken (see, for example,…

— Karl Alexander

Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.

— Gordon Quinn

Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like Mexico City…

— Seth Berkley

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

— John Ciardi

“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high…

— J.D. Vance

“If the neighborhood were to lose the industries, it would be a disaster for us residents. Many enterprises, unable to exist on residential trade…

— Jane Jacobs

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of…

— Anonymous