Quotes About Urbanization

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.

I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

New York is the new Silicon Valley.

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

We're planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We're building public transportation and affordable housing.

Besides infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity in housing and urbanisation of cities - not only building new ones, but also renewing the infrastructure of old cities to make them more livable. This provides tremendous scope for large investments to fuel growth.

Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.

They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on.

New York in the 1880's was already a city that seemed to have made up its mind that whatever existed was dispensable and replaceable

New York, in the late nineteenth century, was also an astonishingly dirty city for a variety of reasons. Only about half of New York's families had bathrooms; the rest were served by outhouses. The Saturday-night bath had become a national ritual, but brushing one's teeth was unheard of. By 1885, some 250,000 horses—pulling carts, carriages, trolleys and public omnibuses—jammed New York's streets.

New York horses were driven until they expired, and as many as a hundred horses collapsed daily in the streets. It was often a matter of days before the carcasses could be hauled away, and the odor of decaying horseflesh added its own pungency to the city air. In the 1880's, meanwhile, New Yorkers were only beginning to get used to the luxury of paved streets in certain areas. Forty-second

Not only did America invent the skyscraper, it invented the skyline.

The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which lead to the loss of our humanity and our sense of spiritual emptiness.

We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums.

It's - the working class of San Francisco and the Bay Area is being pushed out of its old neighborhoods because of the skyrocketing cost of housing, and there's no real working class left because these are jobs for engineers and managers and designers - very smart people.

I think the Netherlands will become one big city at a point. It is inevitable when you live in a country with so many people. You cannot afford to leave nature as it is. Some people believe that the dunes should be left in their original state, but I think it's strange to let things become how they were 500 years ago.

How strange it was to be inside a machine again! All his life he'd been inside machines, whether he realised it or not. Modern houses were machines. Shopping centres were machines. Schools. Cars. Trains. Cities. They were all sophisticated technological constructs, wired up with lights and motors. You switched them on, and didn't spare them a thought while they pampered you with unnatural services.

the birthrate falls dramatically as a nation industrializes, urbanizes, and educates young girls.

Keterpencilan kota itu mungkin lebih pada masalah waktu ketimbang jarak.

Kebisingan mobil yang hadir di mana-mana, seperti zat asam, melahap setiap momen perenungan. Mobil menjadikan keindahan masa lalu kota tak terlihat. Aku tidak seperti para moralis goblok yang berang karena sepuluh ribu kematian per tahun di jalan raya. Setidak-tidaknya, itu mengurangi jumlah pengendara mobil. Tapi aku memberontak terhadap kenyataan bahwa mobil-mobil telah menelan banyak katredal!

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

All of these cities and towns are, in a sense, suburbs of Los Angeles. . . . dominated by Los Angeles.