Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

All it takes is an understanding that humans, not buildings come first when designing a city.

Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.

We have stopped making communities in which people want to live and are making communities where people drive through.

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

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

A community is business, education, and housing. Without those, the community suffers.

If, instead of hiring half-baked revolutionary planners to fill our college undergraduates with ingenious schemes to disperse populations, split up big cities into little ones, go underground or into distant places to escape bombs and congestion, abandon large urban areas in favor of roadside villages, we were to publish reliable, simply written, common-sense information to control the building boom, what a country this would be!

We can’t be a great country unless we have great cities.

The city ... is involved in the fight for its life. One of the critical battlegrounds is the struggle to preserve middle class residential neighborhoods.

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.

I am dedicated to ensuring that the prosperity our city is experiencing extends to everyone who lives, works and visits Portland.

At City, we don't just have successful people: we have great human beings who know that family is paramount.

For me, it's always been about Toronto. I love it here. My family loves it here. My wife loves it here, which is important.

Knox County, Tennessee, is a great place to live, work, and raise a family.

When we talk about a city, we need to talk about what the future is. Whats the ideal scenario in the future?

Transit builds a city that people choose to live in.

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

City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary, or even efficient city, much less a beautiful one.

When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ... We now lavishly praise Frank Lloyd Wright, but we never made any community use of him, though he longed for the chance.

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.

The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people…We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both.

They should've built a city on rock and roll.

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?