Chance Quote by Paul Romer

The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to…

— Ed McMahon

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous…

— Alan Dundes

“Unfortunately, there is no rule saying a city must be a nice place to live in order to attract fast population and economic growth.…

— Laurence C. Smith

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest…

— Jaime Lerner

People go to the big urban centres because they have a quality of life, a quality of intellectual inquiry in the big urban centres…

— Irvine Welsh

“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

It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they…

— Gary Lineker

As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that…

— Susan Oliver

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

“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

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they…

— Jane Jacobs