Edward Ruscha Quotes

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.

When I left South Africa there were 10 million people - when I came back there were more than 40 million. I had to learn how to get to the highways because when I left where there were no highways.

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

Urbanization is the dominant demographic trend of our time.

The United States was born in the country and has moved to the city.

With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners.

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

The cost of housing in L.A. has increased dramatically because more people want to live here. They come to Los Angeles every day, not just from around the United States but from around the world.

Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

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.

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

A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

In only 37 years, our population will grow by a number equivalent to all the people in the world at the beginning of World War II.

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.

Thicken Population.

The old order of the country gave way to the new order of the city. Rural morality was replaced by urban morality, rural voices by urban voices, rural votes by urban votes.

Population growth is a global problem affecting all of us.

Cities are spreading like a cancer of the planet.

If allowed to continue, the population will increase by 12 million—two more Scotlands—in 20 years. That’s huge.

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.