Urban Progress Quotes

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.

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.

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

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.

It's not without its flaws - it's still the South and the Bible Belt - but Atlanta is one of those cities that's really good at uniting people.

There've been lots of positive changes in the city since I worked at Salford Tech in the seventies, and I'm pleased to be known as Salford's Bard and to have helped put it on the map.

Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city.