Built Quote by Susan Oliver

Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all…

— Enrique Penalosa

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

— Diana Trilling

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child.

— Kym Whitley

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

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

Being born in a small town, you have got many advantages. You get to experience so many things in life.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

— Wendell Berry

Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of…

— Jaime Lerner

In the developing world, most people don't yet live in big well-run cities. Given the chance to move to one, hundreds of millions of…

— Paul Romer

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

— Malcolm Gladwell