Kareena Kapoor Khan Quotes

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

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.

The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.

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

Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc?

I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.

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.

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

Brazil will change when its cities change.

These vast lands [Africa, South America, Asia]... need only assistance from us to be civilized.

Urbanization is the dominant demographic trend of our time.

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.

As we double our numbers ... we must double our houses.

We offer them Roman citizenship in order to make them more desirous of living in the city and to induce others to do so.

Astana is a government city, not a tourist city, but all you do is tour it. You tour it in the cab from the airport, passing the gleaming new English-language Nazarbayev University and then the new soccer stadium, speed-skating track, and ten-thousand-seat velodrome.

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.

I heard that Hubballi-Dharwad is going to be a Smart City. But it should ensure the sense of community and love is not lost.

Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

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

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.