Raj Thackeray Quotes

When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural areas. I was also shocked at the poverty and at the living conditions.

Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

It is deeply to be deplored that the people should continue to stream into the over-crowded cities, and should thus further deplete the country districts.

Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.

Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.

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

Now this problem of the adjustment of man to his natural resources, and the problem of how such things as industrialization and urbanization can be accepted without destroying the traditional values of civilization and corrupting the inner vitality of its life—these things are not only problems of America; they are the problems of men everywhere.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man.

Cities are spreading like a cancer of the planet.

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.

Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.

Folks are leaving Silicon Valley, mostly because they can't afford to stay.

It's obvious that China faces a range of demographic and economic difficulties stemming from its own population growth, and that the global community has a vested interest in avoiding the worst impacts of that growth.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.

Above all, Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette, and Mumbai - that teeming 'maximum city', with 19 million strivers on the make, jostling, scheming, struggling and killing for success - is his brush.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Typically, market-driven growth spawns urbanisation and leads to migration. Urban centres expand into humongous entities that thrive on an unending supply of energy.

Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.

Really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways.

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

People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on, but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

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.

Thicken Population.