City Development Quotes

Cities are created by and for traffic.

Venture for America operates in communities that could generally use more innovation: Detroit, New Orleans, Baltimore, and other U.S. cities. So I'm obviously a big believer in innovation and progress as key drivers of economic growth and prosperity.

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.

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

Most of the job on DDP was already done by the time I became mayor. So was Gwanghwamun Square, described by many architects as the city's worst architectural creation, and the new city hall. I did not think that redoing them would be the right approach as that would only create new problems.

We've made tremendous strides and changes in the City of New York since 1994.

Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths.

I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory and greatness.

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.

Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

The city of Rio de Janeiro is setting an example to the world of how to recover quality urban spaces through drastic intervention and the creation of cultural facilities such as the Museum of Tomorrow.

The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

When I was in L.A., the structure wasn't up to par as I wanted it to be.

Amaravati will not be a ghost city.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.

I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.

The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people.