City Vision Quotes

I always wanted to at least visit Dubai - it was a city that I loved to watch on the Discovery Channel. It had the world's biggest everything and clearly had a vision to stand out.

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

I like to use the analogy of going to the gym. If you go to the gym and your goal is, 'I want to look just like David Beckham,' then that drives you to do certain things. You may never look like Beckham, but it is a goal. Cities need the same thing. They need a vision and a plan for their ideal physique.

There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

I was elected to carry forward my overall vision for the city.

What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs.