Susan Oliver Quotes

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.

Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

I heard that Hubballi-Dharwad is going to be a Smart City. But it should ensure the sense of community and love is not lost.

I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem.

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.

Let's make Oakland a model city.

I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity.

I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure bank in Chicago. I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors.

I believe London is the city New York wants to be when it grows up. I love the wealth of cultural resources that a city of that size can offer. I also believe I don't have to sacrifice all of my standards for human behavior to avail myself of them.

I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what.

I'm committed to helping the residents of Stockton succeed.

I can sign all of the emergency proclamations I want, but that's not going to fix the infrastructure in urban Honolulu.

Mayors, city council members, and legislators come and go, but neighborhoods don't go anywhere.

London is a vast, complex city designed by the same guy who created the Habitrail.

My foundation mainly works in Chicago, and the city needs a lot of help. I'm glad that was able to be incorporated into what I'm doing with Wolverine. It's important to keep one foot firmly planted at home and try to benefit my people well.

In 'Palaces for the People,' Eric Klinenberg offers a new perspective on what people and places have to do with each other, by looking at the social side of our physical spaces.

In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities - we have lots of anonymous interactions and interactions with strangers. That has shaped us enormously.

In the 50s and early 60s, community was incredibly important to people.

It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.

People make a city, it's not the other way round.