Bryan Adams Quotes

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 inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

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.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

I love Columbus Circle. I rebelled against the construction for a while because I go back to the '70s. There was no Time Warner building. Now I've started to really like it.

Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.

Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

Over the past thirty years Europe’s influence has transformed Cairo. Now…we are civilized.

Long commutes and traffic jams once associated with older, established cities such as London, New York or Tokyo are spreading throughout the world's emerging economies.

I had always thought that Gurgaon was some village, it was only when I came here that I realized that it is nothing less than a world-class city.

The pace of change and development in our country is rapid and appreciable.

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

Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home.

The suburb in the 1950s was a bedroom community. The father worked in the city, and the mother stayed home. Now people live and work in the suburbs, and businesses have grown up or moved from cities to certain pockets of what was once the suburbs and created these places that are like cities.

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.

Industrial forces set in motion by steam and electricity have materially changed the structure of our civilization.

Urbanization is the dominant demographic trend of our time.

Cities are immortal.

Industrialization, by drawing people from the countryside to the cities brings with it the weakening of traditional political and social support systems.

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.

Our overbuilt cities with their congestion, their trend to high office buildings and apartments, their complete indifference to the most elementary principles of civilian defense, their slums representing past neglect and greed, can to a considerable extent be rebuilt on better principles if we are smart enough to look the facts in the eye and brush off the Babbitts who hold that wherever the dirt flies there is progress. On the other hand, cities can not be revolutionized and turned into garden villages or green belts. In the suburbs and near-by country, however, we still have a chance to do the right thing without stultifying compromises....