Been Quote by Michael Ritchie

This is critical to the region. Every other major city has public transportation going downtown. We have a world-class airport now, and this could…

— Debbie Stabenow

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to…

— Jane Jacobs

The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of the shopping…

— Jane Jacobs

People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.

— Jack White

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has…

— Stone Gossard

“It is downtown that we usually hear about in the national press and it is downtown that is spurring the most development and commerce.…

— Aaron Foley

I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are…

— Jane Jacobs

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard…

— Ed McMahon

You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.

— Jane Jacobs

I grew up in the suburbs, so I figured 'Why not try downtown living?' And, honestly, I love it. I've been very pleasantly surprised…

— Andrew Luck

Downtown Cairo is at the center of the city, it is a place that has to be shared between different classes. It's a place…

— Tamer El Said

Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

— Dan Gilbert