Urban Quotes

Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.

Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.

In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

There is nothing wrapped in my turban but God.

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.

The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

I would wear a turban to Whole Foods.

The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization,and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context