Cities Quote by Jane Jacobs

“overcrowding and poverty, that "defied description", as”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than…

— Gore Vidal

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which…

— George Bernard Shaw

Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and…

— Allan Fromme

“You cannot be a good house in a rapidly deteriorating neighborhood. The credibility and the fair functioning of the neighborhood matter a great deal.…

— Bernardo Kliksberg

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

— Josiah Strong

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

— James Norman Hall

“What happens under the rule of specialization is that, though society becomes more and more intricate, it has less and less structure. It becomes…

— Wendell Berry

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable

— Jeremy Irons

Civilization has taught man how to live in dense crowds, and by that very fact those crowds are likely ultimately to constitute a majority…

— Charles Galton Darwin

“Suburban sprawl has heavily damaged the balance of our cities, divorcing environmental context from design and removing the concept of scale from the creation…

— Avi Friedman

“The assumption that the city, the state, or even the federal government has the plans and the wherewithal to handle this particular crisis is…

— Ted Koppel