Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.
So here's my advice to city planners. Make your city runnable. Runners are the first wave of troops bringing human activity back to the urban core of any city. Where we go, others will follow. The connection between runnability and livability is so clear (at least to me), that it's surprising that new developments consistently leave pathways out of the plans.
Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.
The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my make-up be seen?' Are they going to whip me?' No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought?' Where is my freedom of speech?' My life, is it livable?' What's going on in the political prisons?
We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.
It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both.
Transit builds a city that people choose to live in.
I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.
What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.
Cities are not problems. They are solutions.
The population of Seoul is decreasing but a large population is not a key element of an advanced city.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.
A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.
Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.
Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
McKinney, Texas is the number one place to live in the country. It's certainly the number place to live in Texas according to Forbes and all these other. Wonderfully integrated, it's upscale.
What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren't allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn't please the eye.
Knox County, Tennessee, is a great place to live, work, and raise a family.
