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“In 2006 the planet crossed a remarkable historical threshold, with more than half of the world’s population residing in urban centers, compared with just…

— Geoffrey West

“compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high school or college graduates, homeowners, and not…

— J.D. Vance

By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon…

— Eduardo Paes

The only city people are those born so.

— George Ade

“As the urban world becomes more hazardous, stressful, and complex, there are those who will be attracted to a simpler way of life.”

— John A. Hostetler

“It isn’t just the US: the half of the world’s population that lives in urban areas generates more than 80 percent of global output,…

— Charles Kenny

The urban, on the other hand, is often seen as more real and mundane, even though it is obviously far more recent in terms…

— Quentin S. Crisp

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and…

— Anonymous

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents,…

— Hari Sreenivasan

“In 35 years, 50 percent of our population will live in our cities. Most other countries will be in a similar situation. We need…

— Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in…

— Aldous Huxley

“But as urban life accelerated and expanded, it disrupted the old sense of order. This new way of living generated unprecedented social and political…

— Ilia Delio