John Liu Quotes

I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

My take on gentrification and change is it's usually always a better thing, because when you see all these businesses open and flourishing, that means there are more jobs.

Compton looks a lot of different. Residents are now able to go out and grab a bite, go to dinner, go to Target, Best Buy or a gym or Marshall's. We're now able to experience more amenities. I want to see that grow.

Detroit can become a national model for urban revitalization, but to do so, it must break free from past development models.

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.

I come from Carol City. The city renamed it Miami Gardens.

I think Giuliani started a trend that Bloomberg continued with rampant gentrification, and I think it's tough because why would any city choose not to do that?

Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to transform historic properties.

Trinity River Vision is huge for Fort Worth.

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

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.

It's interesting: the letters I get from mayors that want Wal-Mart to look and invest in their community.

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

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.

Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

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.

We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.

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.

No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a curious beauty to its industrial zone, but Bushwick is no Williamsburg, even if the real estate agents would have you believe it is.

Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity.

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.