Jaime Lerner Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.

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.

What I am delivering to Alaska is a future that holds hope and opportunity for jobs, for people in this state.

India's sprawling subcontinent can never become a plus-size Singapore. But perhaps we can weave together an urban web that is the equivalent of a thousand Singapores.

Infrastructure development is a huge challenge for the people of Amethi.

Those in the metro-Atlanta area know how crucial the investments in our infrastructure and transportation systems are to improving our communities.

We need investment in green economy infrastructure; public services, training and education; and a multilateral plan to create youth job opportunities.

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.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

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

We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents.

Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

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

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

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.

Many of them are doing it because they are concerned about smart growth.

The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they can get permitted quickly and get building quickly.

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal things in the city if you think of the transformation of the city and the quality of life.