Urbanization 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.

  Li Keqiang

  Cities, Numbers, Style

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

  Manmohan Singh

  Growth, Outcomes, Process

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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

  Kushal Pal Singh

  Thinking, Think Big, Bigs

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Village

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cities, Certain, Collections

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

  Camille Paglia

  Males, Homosexuality, Decadence

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• 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.

  Jamais Cascio

  Wind, Civilization, Creating

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• 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.

  David Harvey

  Cities, Liberty, Individual

  David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• 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. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. 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.

  David Harvey

  Change, Freedom, Exercise

  David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• 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.

  David Harvey

  Change, Freedom, Rights

  David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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

  Emma Lazarus

  Tired, Civilization, Giving

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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

  William H. Whyte

  Cities, Space, People

  William H. Whyte (2012). “City: Rediscovering the Center”, p.109, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Life, Country, Keys

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

  Kushal Pal Singh

  India, Has Beens, Ifs

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• 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.

  C. Vann Woodward

  Culture, Industrialization, Development

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

  Emma Lazarus

  Inspirational, Freedom, Tired

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• Hillary Brown understands that?for our grandchildren's sake?we must rebuild America and, in doing so, re-imagine our interconnected infrastructure systems to make them more efficient, environmentally safe, and resilient in this age of global urbanization. This fascinating and important book should be required reading for our elected officials and policy-makers.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Book, Reading, Grandchildren

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• The colonial experience all Muslim countrieswent through may be a factor in the fight against Western domination, British, French or whatever. They were until recently largely rural societies with land owning governing elites in most of them. I think they are certainly moving toward urbanization and much more pluralistic political systems. In almost every Muslim country, that is occurring. Obviously they are increasing their involvement with non-Muslim societies. One peak aspect of this, of course, is the migration of Muslims into Europe.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Moving, Fighting

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