Robert Redford Quotes

Urban and suburban sprawl is somewhat like pornography. Most people have great difficulty defining it, but they think they know it when they see it. Sprawl has been with us since the dawn of history.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.

Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it.

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.

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

Many of them are doing it because they are concerned about smart growth.

Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.

If we allow more development, it will bring housing affordability.

The brutal reality is that newer, more sprawling suburbs - and especially the cheap boom-years exburbs - aren't just a bit unsustainable, they're ruinously unsustainable in almost every way, and nothing we know of will likely stop their decline, much less fix them easily.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

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

Business was bound to come; light industries were already shopping for land. The quiet country farms were already going, and developments would take over... Eventually, of course, we will have to have some sort of plan to guide future development.

Cities are spreading like a cancer of the planet.

My family went to the Hamptons, so I understand what happens when a slice of perfect utopia gets overdeveloped, when one way of living is replaced by another.

We go to Dubai quite a lot, so I've seen it being gradually ruined.

I don't wish for anybody to go out of business, but I think there are far too many things in New York that really shouldn't be here.

The suburbs of yesterday do not look at all like the suburbs of today.

If you don’t put positive things in the city’s open spaces, they will be filled by negative things.

… authors generally neglect that growth has lifted billions of people out of grinding poverty and that others may remain poor because of the developed world’s environmental concerns …

Has our society reached the limit of its resources or the maximum of its wealth and prosperity?

We are going to strangle ourselves in our own growth.

Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the 'Population Monster.'

Harlem was a development, a developer's dream and a place where residents had more space and more amenities than ever before. The subway reached 145th street about 1904, and it seemed that Harlem's destiny was to become largely a preserve of successful ethnics relocating and arriving. Then, overnight, the bust took place.

Population needs to be stabilised for sustainable development.