Air Quote by Wangari Maathai

Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage people to…

— Ma Yansong

Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency,…

— Richard Rogers

If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

We need a concept of development to meet human needs.

— Michael Frome

I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get away from…

— Barry Goldwater

If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that,…

— Peter Diamandis

This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have…

— John Taylor Gatto

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

In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give explicit consideration…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

— Wangari Maathai

Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity…

— George Monbiot

No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out…

— Barack Obama