Cases Quote by Stephen Kinzer

While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

— Jasmine Guinness

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. And yet with more than 80 percent of Americans living in…

— David Simon

“To think of the Midwest as a whole as anything other than beautiful is to ignore the extraordinary power of the land. The lushness…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“...the Midwest is coping with a twenty-first-century problem [globalization] with a nineteenth-century political and social structure [relying on state and city solutions rather than…

— Richard C. Longworth

What I would say is that in its first iteration, Extinction Rebellion is really about democracy, by calling in for these new democratic forms…

— Gail Bradbrook

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

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

— Dionne Brand

The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people live.

— Chinua Achebe

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

It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no…

— Vikas Swarup

It saddens me that in the 21st century, with all our knowledge and power, we are hearing more and more stories of possible extinctions…

— Gisele Bundchen

“Towns [in the Midwest] with immigrants are growing. Towns without immigrants are shrinking. It's as simple as that.”

— Richard C. Longworth