Li Keqiang Quotes

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

Cities perform most functions in a very Industrial Age model.

India's sprawling subcontinent can never become a plus-size Singapore. But perhaps we can weave together an urban web that is the equivalent of a thousand Singapores.

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.

If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

Urbanization is the dominant demographic trend of our time.

The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies.

Dallas was not a caring city, but it was efficient.

I had always thought that Gurgaon was some village, it was only when I came here that I realized that it is nothing less than a world-class city.

The Huashan project is a clear example of how an urban element, key to the successful growth of the city, can at the same time improve the quality of life for its citizens, thanks to an integration of all three bridges and the creation of boulevards on the banks of the canal.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

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

The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

China's urbanization supported the country's impressive growth and rapid economic transformation.

I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.