Life Quote by Jane Jacobs

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions…

— Alvar Aalto

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.

— David Byrne

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

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material…

— Jonathan Raban

“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

Everybody lives in a city, cause there's not too many people in the small towns who can find work.

— J. J. Cale

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

“In the 1980s, worried professionals began to come together to compare notes and create visions of new ways of living that would offer a…

— Bella DePaulo

Urban living is an intersection of business and personal life.

— Shahid Khan

“To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable: 1. The district, and indeed as many of its internal…

— Jane Jacobs

“life closely track your income: residents of wealthy districts can expect to live longer and better.”

— Tony Judt

“They have shown that problems endemic to poverty—residential instability, severe deprivation, concentrated neighborhood disadvantage, health disparities, even joblessness—stem from the lack of affordable housing…

— Matthew Desmond