City Growth 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.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.

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

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

Los Angeles is the evolutionary edge.

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.

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.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

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

Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Art music is an evolving matter, and so are a lot of cities.

The fact that Newark is having poetry festivals and peace conferences - all of these things are building an undeniable thesis that our city is making incredible strides forward.

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

Cities are natural, that's why they're everywhere. It's not like there's only one city, and everybody's like 'What the f**k is this?' No, cities are all over the place. They're natural. You know what's not natural? You, in the middle of the mountains, in the middle of the winter.

I have reported enough about Islam and terrorism to recognize that a lot of what is at stake is not strictly religion, even though it's also about power and control. In the case of Karachi, like so many other growing cities, it's also about land, mafias, gang activity.

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.

As more and more people adopt an urban lifestyle and cities continue to swell, not only does the risk of urban epidemics increase - something we haven't seen much of for decades - but the need for larger emergency stockpiles can increase, too.

The city is recruited from the country.

Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new frontier in America's international economic policy.

For me, safety is a huge parameter for a city's progress. If your city is safe, it is progressing.

I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

New York is celebrated as a leader in our nation's quest for progress because ours is a city built by the labor of a thousand different shades and accents.