Richard J. Needham Quotes

Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building up, down and on manmade islands and landfills.

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

Mobility will be one of the major beneficiaries of population growth in the world.

Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit.

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

I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.

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

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

The railroads were built at the expense of the destruction of agriculture.

As we double our numbers ... we must double our houses.

The land in Ireland is infinitely more peopled than anywhere else; and to give full effect to the natural resources of the country, a great part of the population should be swept from the soil.

Give us 20 years, and you'll not recognize this country!

Population must increase rapidly, more rapidly than in former times, and ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil.

I don’t think everybody fully appreciates the consequences of slower growth, which are very serious. You need growth to have the resources to build the infrastructure, housing, to uphold the standard of living.

Priorities have to be allocated by the government because they have a complete picture of the country's requirements. If priority is allocated to a manned space programme, I'm confident we can swing it. But it's going to be tremendously expensive - the infrastructure and so on.

The loss of land for food security has to be measured not only in quantitative terms but also in respect of land use.

Theoretically in Germany there is more space because it is less tactical.

I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast.

Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.

It is the daydreaming of some people who live in a make-believe world who think you can make roads, hospitals, and railways without any social impact!

We need a government policy all-out in favor of more, denser housing.

The sugar industry doesn't want to see more of the agricultural areas turned into storm-water treatment areas. Ultimately they want to develop that land for houses and a shopping center.