Community Quote by Sharan Burrow

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

Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.

— Peter Maurer

(The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for,…

— Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

People don't know where they stand and what they're going to lose, and that makes things uncertain. The political parties try to meld people…

— Steve Inskeep

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

— James Norman Hall

As populations continue to increase, and the climate continues to deteriorate, and as people flock in ever increasing numbers to large, underdeveloped cities, the…

— Antonio Guterres

Conflicts are increasingly causing devastation in densely populated urban centres rather than open battlefields, creating a host of new problems through the cumulative impact…

— Peter Maurer

“Gentrification is key to understanding what happened to our cities at the turn of the millennium. But it is only half of the story.…

— Jeff Chang

It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved…

— Woodrow Wilson

“As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose.”

— Erik Larson

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.

— Narendra Modi