Becoming Quote by Peter Maurer

Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.

— Peter Maurer

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time,

— Victor Cruz

The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of…

— E. F. Schumacher

Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto pre-existing inequalities,…

— Peter Maurer

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than…

— Gore Vidal

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

As more and more people adopt an urban lifestyle and cities continue to swell, not only does the risk of urban epidemics increase -…

— Seth Berkley

“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

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

Unplanned urbanisation can create urban chaos and trigger urban violence.

— Sanjaya Baru

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

— Manmohan Singh

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