Airy Quote by John Arbuthnot

As megacities like Mexico City and Lagos become increasingly common, we could see a rise of the urban epidemic and a new era of…

— Seth Berkley

“The massive COVID-19 outbreak in New York City demonstrated that dense urban environments are undesirable places for humans to live.”

— Steven Magee

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

“The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation save us…

— Cacilda Jethá

As cities get bigger, our best defence will be to prevent outbreaks in the first place by building better public health systems, improving childhood…

— Seth Berkley

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the…

— Chester A. Arthur

Cities need to reinvent themselves in order to stay alive.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of…

— John Muir

“All socioeconomic activity in cities involves the interaction between people. Employment, wealth creation, innovation and ideas, the spread of infectious diseases, health care, crime,…

— Geoffrey West

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated…

— Nikola Tesla

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

— Malcolm Gladwell