Neal Shusterman Quotes

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

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

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.

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities - from anything but cities themselves.

In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.

In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.

The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure - than almost any other factor save topography.

I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.

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

Cities perform most functions in a very Industrial Age model.

Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.

I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at a different phase in our civilization.

My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest.

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.

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.

Cities are created by and for traffic.

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

London is the greatest city in the world, but we're at a crossroads. Ordinary Londoners have been priced out of our city because of the housing crises. We're a city that's growing in population, but the infrastructure can't cope with the growth.

When one deals with urban issues, one never deals with clear black-and-white issues; they're all trade-offs. Important urban issues present conflicting values.

Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.

Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're different in race and culture and religion. And what we make of that will determine the American future.

The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.