Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes

Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon is central to all the challenges humanity faces. If there is an issue to be addressed, then it is certainly happening in cities and therefore must be considered on an urban scale.

In 2007, the majority of the world’s population – over 3 billion of us – will live in urban areas for the first time in history.

The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man.

When 125,000 people are gathered together on 10 square miles of land they must of necessity give up certain of their liberties. It is a sacrifice they must make for the sake of the advantages of city life.

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.

London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

I have the best job in the world. I wake up every morning energized at the thought of running Rio de Janeiro, the most exciting city on the planet.

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within our power to make it a carbon zero one, too; and to be blunt, civilization depends on our success.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

Cities perform most functions in a very Industrial Age model.

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.

I'm in love with the markets of the world. It's a photograph of a city, a culture.

Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from across the globe.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.