Architect Quote by Jane Jacobs

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

— Jane Jacobs

A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

— Ai Weiwei

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

— Rabih Alameddine

Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment.…

— Ban Ki-moon

There are so many cities in every single city.

— David Mitchell

Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

— Jan Gehl

Cities are platforms for sharing.

— Lisa Gansky

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

— Clarence Stein

To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to…

— Reinaldo Arenas

If we're going to make a city everybody can live in for a lifetime, we need to make sure we are building and growing…

— Betsy Hodges

Each city has strengths. Cities should be developed with their own individuality and characteristics.

— Park Won-soon

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.

— Jane Jacobs