Urban Economy Quotes

I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.

People work hard for their money, and they expect services for the dollars they put into the city.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

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.

Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.

Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy. I think we have something like 40,000 small businesses that are immigrant-run in New York.

Blockchain is an innovative technology with the power to change society and is gaining the world's attention as a technology to enhance the competitiveness of the urban economy.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the dexterity or labour of their hands, are commonly the most prolific, the most useful, and, in that sense, the most respectable part of the community.

Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy).

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

If the national economy improves, Chicago will improve.

Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.

The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there's no concentration of it.

Metro Atlanta has virtually unlimited economic potential.

You have nothing coming into a major metropolitan area to relocate or locate your business and employees. And you can go across the country and you'll see that.

Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.

I like doing business in a black city.

As minorities and other immigrant groups become more important to our economy, the inner city is a crucible that gives us an early look at phenomena that are going to be spreading more broadly in the economy over time.