Nick Clegg Quotes

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance.

The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.

We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.

Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage people to live.

By scrapping the government's centrally dictated density targets we'll ensure that the right type of new homes are built where they're needed, ending the glut of one- and two-bedroom flats.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.

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

The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.

A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.

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.

The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they can get permitted quickly and get building quickly.

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland.

The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

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

Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.

We need to reform our land use policies to build more housing in urban centers and near transit.

We're planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We're building public transportation and affordable housing.

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.

My first large-scale community development opportunity was the formation of the Mission Viejo Co. - a partnership with the O'Neill Family, who owned Rancho Mission Viejo. As the young president of the company, I had the responsibility for master planning, master building and implementing the new community's development plans.

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.