Challenges Quote by Sadiq Khan

Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain…

— Theresa May

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

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the…

— Jane Jacobs

All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices,…

— Geoff Mulgan

“The city as the engine for social change and increasing well-being is one of the truly great triumphs of our amazing ability to form…

— Geoffrey West

There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked…

— Jaime Lerner

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require…

— Will Wright

Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and…

— Allan Fromme

“We need to understand how the dynamics of innovation, technological advances, urbanization, financial markets, social networks, and population dynamics are interconnected and how their…

— Geoffrey West

Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. But we do not believe they are…

— Theodore Kaczynski

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

Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in…

— Robert D. Putnam