Laura Miller Quotes

If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads.

Besides infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity in housing and urbanisation of cities - not only building new ones, but also renewing the infrastructure of old cities to make them more livable. This provides tremendous scope for large investments to fuel growth.

You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.

I want to make Seoul more attractive. I want to make it a good investment.

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people.

If you don’t put positive things in the city’s open spaces, they will be filled by negative things.

My studio's passion is improving the public experience of cities for everyone.

To develop or not to develop, that is the question.

I am pleased for Poland as a country, that new motorways are being constructed, new businesses, new stadiums.

We're tying to get Baltimore on the right track.

It is the daydreaming of some people who live in a make-believe world who think you can make roads, hospitals, and railways without any social impact!

Most of the job on DDP was already done by the time I became mayor. So was Gwanghwamun Square, described by many architects as the city's worst architectural creation, and the new city hall. I did not think that redoing them would be the right approach as that would only create new problems.

Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.