City Change Quotes

I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

When I lived in Delhi, it was burdened with so many futures - fast roads, malls, flyovers - that one felt almost obliged to be hopeful. Now that hope has diminished, you can feel the city going into a frenzy to reinvent itself. I miss living there.

I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven.

I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.

There were a lot of people in Manchester that I was connected to, so it is a bit different coming to London and not knowing as many people.

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

I started high school in L.A., but I went to public school in New York.

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

The Raiders moved from Oakland to Los Angeles, didn't like it, didn't get along. Whatever it was, moved back to Oakland.

The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.

I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.

Our cities need to change, fast. Tactical Urbanism is a guided tour of solutions created when local people decide they can't wait for politics to catch up before they improve their neighborhoods. This weathervane book deserves a place on any urbanist's bookshelf.

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.

New York has definitely turned into more of, like, a hipster place.

I moved to L.A. in 2007 from Sweden.

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

I was born in Breslau on October 5th, 1930. At that time, Breslau, now called Wroclaw, belonged to Germany, and only German was spoken there. After the Second World War, Breslau became Polish, and the original German population was almost completely replaced by a Polish one. I have never visited Wroclaw after the war.

Even an unsuccessful Olympic bid can be the source of change within a city if organizers adhere to their vision.

Some people are afraid of gentrification, but what I see is young people want to live in a different world. And they see possibilities here. They see that rents are relatively cheap compared to places like New York and California.

I was born in Boston, but I moved to Cleveland when I was three.

Is it a different New York since Lou Reed died? It’s been a different New York since I saw him in his sweatpants at the Cozy Soup ‘n’ Burger.

Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.

I rode the buses in L.A. until I was in my early 30s, and there's something about driving or riding through L.A. after sundown, when the Utopian city goes into hiding and another city comes out, more Doors and less Byrds.

I had just moved to New York in September 2001, and immediately 9/11 happened, and of course it completely changed the city and everybody who lived there.

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.