Karan Mahajan Quotes

I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and I look above the other signs and window dressing, and I see evidence of a city that no longer exists in the keystones and the decorations that line the tops of buildings. That presence of the old city has always moved me.

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.

I definitely think New York is a very, very vibrant, wonderful city, but I certainly, of course, can't help but miss a lot of the stuff that's no longer there.

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

I want to make Seoul the front line of the new South Korea. Seoul is sleeping, and I want to wake it up.

I remember I went to Berlin right after the Wall came down. I first went to East Berlin, and all the buildings were old and falling down, and now when you go back to Berlin, you know you're in the East because all the buildings are brand new and very tall.

Every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.

You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

Brazil will change when its cities change.

I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

Over the last 15 years or so, Manchester has undergone huge transformation - from a city in decline and on its knees to one that is growing, vibrant and confident.

Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal things in the city if you think of the transformation of the city and the quality of life.

I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.

I'm very bullish on the streetcar.

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.

If we invest in logistic centers, improve on infrastructure and create a facilitative environment, we can easily turn Dar es Salaam into another Dubai of its kind.

I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be.

I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home.

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.

The City gets more and more beautiful every time I come home.

Paris has long been a palimpsest of different cities, each new iteration grafted on top of the still visible last, spanning the extremes of human excellence and beauty and, just as crucially, filth and squalor.

New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.