Sharad Pawar Quotes

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

We will primarily focus on affordable housing, water supply and transport infrastructure, as these are critical for Mumbai. Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas.

Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.

The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

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

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

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

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.

You guys in New York City can’t even get a hole in the ground fixed. And its been 5 years. Let’s be fair.

Being mayor of San Francisco is dealing with pot holes and dog doo.

I can sign all of the emergency proclamations I want, but that's not going to fix the infrastructure in urban Honolulu.

Brussels is sort of a mini London in the sense that if you think about putting a football pitch in London, people laugh at you. There is just no space.

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

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.

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 city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.

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.

One great building does not make a great city.

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

Besides infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity in housing and urbanisation of cities - not only building new ones, but also renewing the infrastructure of old cities to make them more livable. This provides tremendous scope for large investments to fuel growth.

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

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.