Quotes About Urbanization

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

Charter Cities has been approached in many different ways, by many people acting as individuals or as representatives of organizations.

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

We have to work on improving Meerut-Delhi connectivity.

With the growth of both urbanization and globalization, consumers are becoming increasingly disconnected from their food.

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos.

The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.

To allow millions of people to live together on limited land, we have to go to the sky; we have to build a high rise. But we can still build nature and social space into the towers. Each family can have their own courtyard in the sky.

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.

By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.

We used to build our cities and towns around churches. Now banks are at the centers of our densely populated areas.

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

Do you realize it's been only a century that we've been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with the heater on, and the defroster on, protected from the rain and the cold? It hasn't been much longer than that we've had lighting for streets. Think of all that darkness, all that world out there, all that mystery that we've turned into well-lighted concrete bunkers, safe and warm and dull.

Into the cities my people had gathered. They had become dizzy with words. Words had choked them. They could not breathe.

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death!