Cities Quote by Mathis Wackernagel

Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the…

— Alex Steffen

We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.

— Jay Inslee

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

— Mencius

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.

— James Howard Kunstler

Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into the ecosystems…

— Annalee Newitz

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource…

— Lois Capps

If we're going to make a city everybody can live in for a lifetime, we need to make sure we are building and growing…

— Betsy Hodges

Part of what I wanted to do in my book was point out that we have almost reached the point where we can prevent…

— Annalee Newitz

Whatever we do toward energy independence has to be done in the context of using less resources.

— Alan Mulally

The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they…

— Alex Steffen