Claire Fox Quotes

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

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

The Dallas model, prominent in the South and Southwest, sees a growing population as a sign of urban health. Cities liberally permit housing construction to accommodate new residents. The Los Angeles model, common on the West Coast and in the Northeast Corridor, discourages growth by limiting new housing.

There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked to mobility - and social diversity.

The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.

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.

I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

We've made tremendous strides and changes in the City of New York since 1994.

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.

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

I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

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

The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.

Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.

A great American city is fighting for its life.

I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical.

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

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.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.

Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth.