Rachel Cohn Quotes

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them.

The city [ LA] is kind of going through an interesting transition; sort of renaissance time where there is so much going on here. I think it's really exciting to be here.

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.

Transformed people transform cities.

Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence.

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our city's history and to envision its great place in our future.

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.

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

Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

Every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. My new hypothesis shows why. But also in trading with each other they can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another.

I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

We will have a peace dividend to spend on rebuilding America, beginning with our American inner cities. We're going to rebuild them, for once and for all.

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

It's nice to get president candidates' attention to infrastructure need which is really a ticking time bomb in America. But as important as the dollar amounts are, we need to know that this money is gonna go directly to cities. So we're gonna be able to put it to use. In previous administrations and in previous efforts on infrastructure, the money has gone through states and it never seems to find its way to the nation's cities.

Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.