Abundance Quote by Jane Jacobs

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

Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth -…

— James Howard Kunstler

Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by…

— Geoffrey West

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

— Toyo Ito

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love,…

— Alice Walker

Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live…

— Susan Maushart

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially…

— Lawrence Halprin

Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not…

— Ralph Borsodi

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

— Jaime Lerner

A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with…

— Susette La Flesche

It must be acknowledged that an increasing proportion of the world's population is living in cities, in almost completely human-made environments. But we should…

— David Wong

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take…

— Joseph Rykwert