Cities Quote by Jaime Lerner Download Open image “Every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.” — Jaime Lerner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Cities in the world Three Three years World Years
After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view. — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the… — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, there is no rule saying a city must be a nice place to live in order to attract fast population and economic growth.… — Laurence C. Smith Copy Share Image
A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share
I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted,… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
