Explore Quotes on Cities

Since the fall of 2010, people associated with Charter Cities, a not-for-profit think tank that I founded, have been providing pro bono advice to the government of Honduras.

No one from Charter Cities, can have any financial interest in any project in Honduras; no one can accept consulting fees from the Honduran government; no one can accept reimbursement for travel expenses or accommodations; no one can provide advice to any for-profit entity that wants to invest in Honduras.

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

In the developing world, most people don't yet live in big well-run cities. Given the chance to move to one, hundreds of millions of people would go there to get a job, get an education for their children, and live in a place that is clean, safe, and healthy.

Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

I'm a family man now. I don't need no distractions; I don't need no big cities, no big lights, at this point in my career.

If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing.

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

The risk to cities from climate impacts carries great social and economic cost and, of course, the loss of human lives.

Climate action in cities is the key that unlocks a low emissions and resilient future.

As each country looks to meet their emissions reduction, energy efficiency, or renewable energy goals, they will look to cities as places where transformational change can make the most difference.

Cities are where the climate battle will be won or lost.

I really liked falling in love with cities that I had actively disliked before.

The main issue of cities is to tackle climate change and it is the issue of the current and next generations. Sustainability cannot be emphasized too much and I have designated the issue of climate change as the most important to solve.

Each city has strengths. Cities should be developed with their own individuality and characteristics.

Promotion is necessary and it has to be done. I am not shying away from promotion, but going to cities and malls and raising your hands like a stupid guy is not required.

As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.

My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.

Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.

I love going to cities and getting lost. I love doing that rather than following a guidebook.