Jennifer Pahlka Quotes

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.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

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

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

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.

Go ask Virginia— go ask even noble Maryland ... to show you her people, canals, railroads, universities, schools, charities, commerce cities, and cultivated areas.

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

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

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

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

This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

We will primarily focus on affordable housing, water supply and transport infrastructure, as these are critical for Mumbai. Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas.

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world. I suppose it all depends on what makes a city 'livable' for you.

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.

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.

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

Now this problem of the adjustment of man to his natural resources, and the problem of how such things as industrialization and urbanization can be accepted without destroying the traditional values of civilization and corrupting the inner vitality of its life—these things are not only problems of America; they are the problems of men everywhere.