The 166 Best Urbanization Quotes
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There is no manual on how to run a global city like London. But I'm hugely proud of what we've been able to achieve in just the first year. Sadiq Khan, politician
What does this quote by Sadiq Khan mean?
The quote means that running a global city like London is a challenging task, and there is no set of instructions or guidelines to follow. However, despite the difficulties, the speaker is proud of the accomplishments made in the first year of their leadership.
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In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences. Alain Ducasse, chef
Chef Alain Ducasse is a renowned French chef and restaurateur with multiple Michelin-starred restaurants around the world.
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something. Banksy, artist
Banksy is an anonymous street artist and political activist known for his satirical and subversive graffiti art.
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You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect who is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture.
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The loss of land for food security has to be measured not only in quantitative terms but also in respect of land use. M. S. Swaminathan, scientist
M. S. Swaminathan is an Indian geneticist and agricultural scientist who is known as the "Father of the Green Revolution in India."
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One big mistake that we made in Delhi is that we made it a low-rise city which means that rich people have nice green colonies while the poor live in dusty areas. Abhijit Banerjee, economist
Abhijit Banerjee is an Indian-American economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019 for his work on alleviating poverty.
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London is a vast, complex city designed by the same guy who created the Habitrail. Adam Schlesinger, musician
Adam Schlesinger was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the bassist and co-founder of the band Fountains of Wayne.
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. Albert Camus, philosopher
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist who is best known for his existentialist works such as "The Stranger" and "The Myth of Sisyphus."
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South Africa and Brazil are very similar. We have the same social problems, same issues and same growing economies. Cafu,
Cafu is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who played as a right-back.
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I think Nashville could use some better shopping! Carrie Underwood, musician
Carrie Underwood is a Grammy-winning country music singer and songwriter who rose to fame after winning the fourth season of American Idol in 2005.
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I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA. Cary Fukunaga, director
Cary Fukunaga is a film and television director known for his work on projects such as True Detective, Beasts of No Nation, and Jane Eyre.
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Progress, this great heresy of decay. Charles Baudelaire, poet
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who is known for his influential works in the literary movement of symbolism.
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People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxis and the bright lights of Times Square. And it is that, in part. But beyond that, it's rolling hills of fruit orchards and fields of grain and ice-cold waters brimming with oysters. Daniel Humm, chef
Chef Daniel Humm is a Swiss-born chef and restaurateur, known for his work at the Michelin-starred restaurant Eleven Madison Park in New York City.
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I miss the Bay Area - the kind of laid-back lifestyle. Because in Hong Kong, you're going, like, 90 miles an hour, which is fun when you're young. Daniel Wu, actor
Daniel Wu is a Hong Kong-American actor, director, and producer known for his roles in films such as "Tomb Raider" and "Into the Badlands."
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One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. Danny Boyle, director
Danny Boyle is a British film director known for his work on films such as Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, and 127 Hours.
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If somebody doesn't want to cook at home or has more family members than they have room for, then it's great to be in a city that's got restaurants that are actually busy on the holidays. Danny Meyer, businessman
Danny Meyer is a successful American restaurateur and businessman, known for founding the Union Square Hospitality Group and Shake Shack.
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I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City. Dave Eggers, writer
Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher known for his works such as "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and "The Circle."
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Harlem was a development, a developer's dream and a place where residents had more space and more amenities than ever before. The subway reached 145th street about 1904, and it seemed that Harlem's destiny was to become largely a preserve of successful ethnics relocating and arriving. Then, overnight, the bust took place. David Levering Lewis, historian
David Levering Lewis is an American historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner known for his work on African American history and the civil rights movement.
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I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories. David Lynch, director
David Lynch is an American filmmaker, painter, musician, and actor known for his surrealist and often disturbing films such as "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive."
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th. Edmund Phelps, economist
Edmund Phelps is an American economist and the winner of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to the analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy.
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I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw? Edward Norton, actor
Edward Norton is an American actor and filmmaker known for his roles in films such as "Fight Club," "American History X," and "The Incredible Hulk."
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I live an hour from NASA's HQ in Washington, D.C., and sitting in a jam stresses me out. Ellen Stofan, scientist
Ellen Stofan is a planetary geologist and former chief scientist of NASA.
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I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity. Emir Kusturica, director
Emir Kusturica is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, and actor known for his unique style and surreal storytelling.
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Industry has to find a way. together with the governments, to find new modes, new modalities for transportation. Fatih Birol, economist
Fatih Birol is a Turkish economist and the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money. Gael Garcia Bernal, actor
Gael Garcia Bernal is a Mexican actor, director, and producer known for his roles in films such as "Y Tu Mamá También" and "Mozart in the Jungle."
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Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual. Georg Simmel, sociologist
Georg Simmel was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic who is known for his contributions to the field of sociology, particularly in the areas of social theory, urban sociology, and cultural sociology.
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I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A. George Michael, musician
George Michael was a British singer, songwriter, and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s as a member of the pop duo Wham! before embarking on a successful solo career.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted. Ian Mckellen, actor
Ian McKellen is a British actor known for his roles in the Lord of the Rings and X-Men film franchises.
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Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio. Ira Glass, journalist
Ira Glass is an American journalist, radio personality, and producer who is best known as the host and creator of the radio program This American Life.
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I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years. Jack Herer, activist
Jack Herer was an American cannabis activist and author who advocated for the legalization of marijuana and hemp.
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I don't wish for anybody to go out of business, but I think there are far too many things in New York that really shouldn't be here. James Jebbia, designer
James Jebbia is the founder and designer of the streetwear brand Supreme.
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I came over here with $100; it was 1983 and I just ended up staying. New York at that time was very inexpensive and it was very easy to get a job. We lived on Staten Island and you could get cheap rent. It was a good time to be in New York. James Jebbia, designer
James Jebbia is the founder and designer of the streetwear brand Supreme.
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I moved to New York in 1989 and went to study at NYU. James Murphy, musician
James Murphy is an American musician, producer, and DJ, best known as the founder and frontman of the band LCD Soundsystem.
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New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place. James Turrell, artist
James Turrell is an American artist known for his work in the field of light and space.
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them. Kailash Kher, musician
Kailash Kher is an Indian singer and composer known for his unique style of music that blends Indian folk and Sufi music.
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Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects. Kathryn Bigelow, director
Kathryn Bigelow is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter known for her work on films such as The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty.
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Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on. Ken Adam, designer
Ken Adam was a British production designer who worked on numerous films, including several James Bond movies.
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Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century. Kenneth Frampton, architect
Kenneth Frampton is a British architect, historian, and critic known for his contributions to the field of architectural theory and criticism.
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Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc? Kushal Pal Singh, businessman
Kushal Pal Singh is an Indian real estate developer and the chairman of DLF Limited, one of India's largest real estate companies.
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Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy. Layne Staley, musician
Layne Staley was an American musician and the lead vocalist of the rock band Alice in Chains.
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Within New York City and state, families in need face a confusing hodgepodge of supplemental rental assistance programs, many of which are ineffective individually and all of which are clearly ineffective in the aggregate. Letitia James, public servant
Letitia James is the current Attorney General of New York State, serving as a public servant to the people of New York.
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I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now. Lewis Hamilton, driver
Lewis Hamilton is a British racing driver who competes in Formula One for the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team.
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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city. Lewis Mumford, sociologist
Lewis Mumford was an American sociologist, historian, and philosopher known for his studies on urban development and technology.
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I was a bit disappointed to discover that the French Riviera seems to have a large motorway running along the edge of it. Lucy Worsley,
Lucy Worsley is a British historian, author, and television presenter known for her work on historical documentaries and programs.
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I kind of always get described as this, like, 'nature girl'... I've lived in New York for the last five years. Maggie Rogers, musician
Maggie Rogers is an American singer-songwriter and producer known for her unique blend of folk, pop, and electronic music.
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Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today. Marc Andreessen, businessman
Marc Andreessen is a prominent American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer who co-founded Netscape Communications Corporation and Andreessen Horowitz.
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In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead. Kushal Pal Singh, businessman
Kushal Pal Singh is an Indian real estate developer and the chairman of DLF Limited, one of India's largest real estate companies.
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If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history. Kushal Pal Singh, businessman
Kushal Pal Singh is an Indian real estate developer and the chairman of DLF Limited, one of India's largest real estate companies.
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Uber is a phenomenal company. David Drummond, businessman
David Drummond is an American businessman and former senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer at Alphabet Inc.
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The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country. Leona Lewis, musician
Leona Lewis is a British singer, songwriter, and actress who rose to fame after winning the third series of the UK version of The X Factor in 2006.
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New York as an industry is the best city for real estate. You're in a very transparent market. If you need to liquidate, you make three phone calls and you could sell something, even in the worst market. It is also less forgiving; if you make a mistake you can lose money. Aby Rosen, businessman
Aby Rosen is a prominent real estate developer and art collector based in New York City.
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Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978. Adam Davidson, journalist
Adam Davidson is an American journalist, radio personality, and co-founder of the podcast Planet Money.
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Gentrification is a problem of poor planning. Aja Brown, politician
Aja Brown is an American politician who served as the mayor of Compton, California from 2013 to 2020.
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Compton looks a lot of different. Residents are now able to go out and grab a bite, go to dinner, go to Target, Best Buy or a gym or Marshall's. We're now able to experience more amenities. I want to see that grow. Aja Brown, politician
Aja Brown is an American politician who served as the mayor of Compton, California from 2013 to 2020.
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I didn't eat at many restaurants when I was younger. There wasn't much in South Central anyways, except for fast food joints. Baron Davis, athlete
Baron Davis is a retired professional basketball player who played for several NBA teams, including the Charlotte Hornets, Golden State Warriors, and Los Angeles Clippers.
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The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically. Barry Ritholtz, author
Barry Ritholtz is an American author, columnist, and financial commentator.
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The whole world is covered in graffiti. No one cares. It's just part of urban noise. Ben Eine, artist
Ben Eine is a British street artist known for his colorful and bold typography-based murals and graffiti.
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What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? Bernard Levin, journalist
Bernard Levin was a British journalist, author, and broadcaster known for his work in The Guardian, The Times, and The Observer.
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Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven. Bernardo Bertolucci, writer
Bernardo Bertolucci was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his visually stunning and politically charged films.
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For a long time a lot of people thought New Orleans wasn't a safe place and that it was very ratchet. Big Freedia, musician
Big Freedia is a New Orleans-based musician known for popularizing the genre of bounce music.
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We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus. Caroline Lucas, politician
Caroline Lucas is a British politician and Member of Parliament for the Green Party of England and Wales.
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Even Vegas around two o'clock in the morning isn't as busy as here. It's always busy in Times Square, not that we've been out at two in the morning. That's what we hear. Channing Frye, basketball player
Channing Frye is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the NBA for 13 seasons.
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Nashville is only a couple of hours from New York, and people just move at a slower pace there - and they don't care who you are or what you do. Dakota Johnson, actress
Dakota Johnson is an American actress known for her roles in the Fifty Shades film series, The Social Network, and Suspiria.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall. Dave Foley, comedian
Dave Foley is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known for his work on the sketch comedy show "The Kids in the Hall" and the sitcom "NewsRadio."
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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class. Edmund White, novelist
Edmund White is an American novelist, memoirist, and essayist known for his works exploring gay themes and culture.
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I think growth is a big part of everything, it think even growth for Brooklyn, growth for Downtown Brooklyn is good. Fabolous, rapper
Fabolous is an American rapper and songwriter from Brooklyn, New York.
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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high. Florence Henderson, actress
Florence Henderson was an American actress and singer best known for her role as Carol Brady on the television series The Brady Bunch.
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich. Gaby Hoffmann, actress
Gaby Hoffmann is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Field of Dreams" and "Transparent," as well as TV shows like "Girls" and "Uncle Buck."
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San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening. Gavin Newsom, politician
Gavin Newsom is the current Governor of California, having been elected in 2018.
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I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern. Gerard Butler, actor
Gerard Butler is a Scottish actor known for his roles in films such as "300," "The Phantom of the Opera," and "Olympus Has Fallen."
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When you live in Manchester and it's raining every day, you've got to imagine the sun sometimes. When you're brought up in concrete, you aim for the green leaves. And when you get to the green leaves, you yearn again for concrete. Ian Brown, musician
Ian Brown is a British musician and the former lead singer of the band The Stone Roses.
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There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree. Jaime Lerner, politician
Jaime Lerner is a Brazilian architect and urban planner who served as the governor of the state of Paraná and the mayor of the city of Curitiba.
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As in many cities, Uber has disrupted powerful interests in London, starting with the drivers of black cabs, who trace their lineage to 1634, and their influential Licensed Taxi Drivers Association. James B. Stewart, journalist
James B. Stewart is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications.
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From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more. James Surowiecki, journalist
James Surowiecki is an American journalist and author who writes about business and finance.
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Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know. Kenneth Grahame, novelist
Kenneth Grahame was a British novelist and author of the classic children's book "The Wind in the Willows."
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I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession. Kevin Kwan, novelist
Kevin Kwan is a Singaporean-American novelist, best known for his satirical novels Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend, and Rich People Problems.
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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. Kevin Rudd, politician
Kevin Rudd is a former Australian politician who served as the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and again in 2013.
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For the world's four Chinese-speaking regions - Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China - the longer the colonization, the more advanced a place is. Ko Wen-je, politician
Ko Wen-je is a Taiwanese politician and the current mayor of Taipei City.
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I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I would move to New York in a heartbeat. Lexa Doig, actress
Lexa Doig is a Canadian actress known for her roles in popular TV shows such as "Andromeda" and "Arrow".
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Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve. Li Keqiang, politician
Li Keqiang is a Chinese politician who currently serves as the Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.
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I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something. Liam Hemsworth, actor
Liam Hemsworth is an Australian actor known for his roles in movies such as The Hunger Games and Independence Day: Resurgence.
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What I love about L.A. is that people say they're going for a hike, which just means a walk. It's a stroll, but if you walk in L.A., it's a hike. Lucy Punch, actress
Lucy Punch is a British actress known for her roles in movies such as "Hot Fuzz" and "Bad Teacher," as well as TV shows like "Doc Martin" and "A Series of Unfortunate Events."
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In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers. Ludivine Sagnier, actress
Ludivine Sagnier is a French actress known for her roles in films such as "Swimming Pool" and "The Young Pope."
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What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again. Lynne Truss, writer
Lynne Truss is a British writer and journalist, best known for her book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation."
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Having buildings, growth models, having great progress, flyovers, and no human being is feeling for human being is a nightmare scenario. Mahesh Bhatt, director
Mahesh Bhatt is an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in Hindi cinema.
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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. Li Keqiang, politician
Li Keqiang is a Chinese politician who currently serves as the Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.
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China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country - and, second, rapid urbanization. Ma Yansong, architect
Ma Yansong is a Chinese architect known for his innovative and futuristic designs, including the Absolute Towers in Canada and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles.
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Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room. Kapil Sibal, politician
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If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay. Jane Byrne, politician
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In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however. Jane Byrne, politician
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. Ken Livingstone, politician
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My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly. So I came to New York for two reasons: to find my own kin and also to get a job. And that's what I came to New York for in '67. Patti Smith, musician
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I've been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. I'm not a Wall Street lawyer, I'm a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh. Keith Rothfus, politician
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I came to London during what was called the second British invasion. The music was from Britain, the fashion was from Britain, everything was from Britain, so I knew I had to be in Britain. Patrick Cox, designer
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For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house. Marie Windsor, actress
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening. Kage Baker, writer
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The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics. Darryl Pinckney, novelist
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Nature stopped being natural decades ago. Jamais Cascio, writer
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Architecture is definitely a political act. Peter Eisenman, architect
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I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it. Ryan Gosling, actor
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When my family first moved to Hempstead in the 1960s, they were one of the first black families. It used to be an all-white neighborhood, but there was white flight when the black people with money started moving in. When I was, like, 13 or 14, Hempstead had just become all black, and the poverty became worse and worse. Prodigy, musician
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In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. Marie Louise, royalty
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft. Walter Gropius, architect
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Nature made the fields and man the cities. Marcus Terentius Varro, author
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With increased growth in the U.S. population, especially in urban areas, transport bottlenecks will only become more frequent and severe. Dan Lipinski, politician
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When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms. Zaha Hadid, architect
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The message has to go to U.P. and Bihar that there is no space left in Mumbai for you. After destroying the city, the migrants will go back to their villages. But where will we go then? Raj Thackeray, politician
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. Ogden Nash, poet
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Lagos is sometimes emblematic of disorder. In traffic, drivers make their own rules. There is a constant war between our street hawkers and our various forms of law enforcement deployed to eradicate the 'indiscipline' of poverty. Uzodinma Iweala, author
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I do enjoy Singapore very much. Tim Rice, musician
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There's no place that communicates as much - and as quickly - as Times Square does. I see the roiling energy and its forceful race into the future. Of course, after 15 minutes, I want to get as far away from there as possible. Jan Vogler, musician
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Toronto is such a progressive city. When you've travelled to other places in the world, you realize how unprogressive they are. Sarah Gadon, actress
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As a child, I used to have a secret dread - and a recurring nightmare - of the whole world becoming city, being covered with cement and buildings and streets. No more country. No more woods. W. S. Merwin, poet
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One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy. Richard Rogers, architect
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When I don't have the time to be in the Himalayas, I am in Bombay, Los Angles or N.Y. or Paris or wherever. Victor Banerjee, actor
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New York is incredible, but I never felt a part of a community. Keith Maitland, actor
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy. Walter Gropius, architect
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As we continue down the path of automation, virtually every city will have 24-hour convenience stores, 24-hour libraries, 24-hour banks, 24-hour churches, 24-hour schools, 24-hour movie theaters, 24-hour bars and restaurants, and even 24-hour shopping centers. Thomas Frey,
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I think the growing disregard for the environment, culture, and heritage is a natural consequence of capitalism. Varg Vikernes, musician
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Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture. Leon Krier, april 7
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life. Said Sayrafiezadeh, playwright
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I have built already seven very large railway stations: one in Italy; two in Belgium; and in France, and in Switzerland, in Portugal, and also in the United States. And what happens is that stations are not things that come from one day to another, it takes many years. Santiago Calatrava, architect
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It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now. Sean Connery, actor
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I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street. Paz Vega, actress
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. Tadao Ando, architect
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Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks. Jake Halpern, writer
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. James Buchan, novelist
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We will never get to the flying car era. We will get to the era where we get flying drones that haul people, though. Thomas Frey,
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We need to invest in our crumbling infrastructure to create jobs and remain economically competitive. Raja Krishnamoorthi, businessman
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I'm Hackney born and bred and find it hard to call anywhere else home despite the extreme ongoing gentrification which gets me down. Zawe Ashton, actress
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The shock I had, from moving from L.A. to New York, you know, whether you live in an apartment, whether you like to or not, it's cramped, it's crowded and it needs - guess what - a renovation. Regis Philbin, entertainer
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Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year. James Howard Kunstler, author
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There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start. Richard Louv, author
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I was raised in a house on the far South Side of Chicago, in a development erected on a landfill made from slag and other industrial by-products a few years after World War II. Scott Spencer, author
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I think our cities' deteriorating infrastructure is a silent crisis. Betsy Hodges, politician
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As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were. Paul Johnson, journalist
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I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic. Mariella Frostrup, journalist
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace. Otto Penzler, editor
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For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze is as quintessentially Chinese as the Nile is Egyptian or the Rhine is German. Many businesses use its name. Rebecca MacKinnon, journalist
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I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto. Scott Speedman, actor
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All Western cities face significant challenges on social integration. Our populations are booming, but social integration is not keeping pace. Rapid growth is a sign of our success, but it also puts stress on housing, infrastructure - and on communities. Sadiq Khan, politician
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I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world. Mark Rutte, politician
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When I started to put my eye on electronic transportation is when I fell in love with it. Ray J, musician
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Yeah, no desire to live in New York. Giant buildings and it's cold and I'm a big Patriot, Red Sox's fan. What can I possibly do for fun in New York? Tyrus, actor
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Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard with the stars. Sean Combs, musician
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In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California. Saul Bellow, novelist
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People think that when you work in the south you will be driving in a Ferrari in Mumbai but that's not true. Sana Khan,
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By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land. Adam Dell, businessman
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Americans were happy to buy vast quantities of relatively inexpensive Chinese manufactured goods, demand for which provided jobs for the tens of millions of Chinese who moved from poor agricultural areas to new or rapidly expanding cities. Richard N. Haass, diplomat
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Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition. Iain Sinclair, writer
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There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland. Suzanne Fields, journalist
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There's a lot of downtime where you're filling your car up with gas, you're driving to work, you're stuck in traffic - it's Los Angeles, and so much of it is a car lifestyle. Marc Guggenheim, writer
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I've lived in London more or less permanently since the 1950s. Sam Wanamaker, actor
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There's much more activity in England than in Greece. Or at least there's a lot more development, which obviously brings another set of problems. Yorgos Lanthimos, director
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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome. Yann Martel, author
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London. Sam Riley, actor
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I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either. Gabriel Basso, actor
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We have so many issues with overpopulation and urbanization and site looting. And this isn't just Egypt. This is everywhere in the world, even in America. So we only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed. Sarah Parcak, scientist
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While the developed world has shifted from agriculture to manufacturing and then to services, the number of jobs has always climbed. Alain Dehaze, businessman
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In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands. P. J. O'Rourke, comedian
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We have so many issues with overpopulation and urbanization and site looting. And this isn't just Egypt. This is everywhere in the world, even in America. So we only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed. Sarah Parcak, scientist
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Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past? Sarah Parcak, scientist
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The specter of climate change threatens worsening natural disasters, rapid urbanization, forced migration, and economic hardship for the most vulnerable. Despite significant global advances, inability to effectively address epidemics and health emergencies still prevail and continuously threaten global health security and economic development. Tedros Adhanom, politician
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Human civilization has been changing the Earth's 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. Jamais Cascio, writer
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With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past? Sarah Parcak, scientist
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