Environmental Quote by Mark Walport

Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by…

— Geoffrey West

Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of…

— Alex Steffen

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

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

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping…

— Alex Steffen

Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Cities are complex and contain just about any thing or concept ever invented by humans. How the city is built, its topography, and how…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

“But ideal cities are very much the product of their own ages. Designed as complete urban statements, they bear the unmistakable imprint of their…

— Anonymous

As the world's 'most dynamic' cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors…

— Robert Hormats

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the…

— Jane Jacobs

That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do…

— William J. Mitchell

“Individual cities that now do the same thing can reap the benefits. So this isn’t complicated: the most educated people who plug into the…

— Thomas L. Friedman