Urbanization famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Urbanization #Cities #Certain
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

#Exercise #Urbanization #Rights
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

#Urbanization #Wind #Civilization
In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.
-- Kushal Pal Singh

#Thinking #Urbanization #Think Big
If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.
-- Kushal Pal Singh

#Urbanization #India
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

#Urbanization #Cities #Numbers
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

#Urbanization #Culture #Industrialization

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Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.
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I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.
Forever is composed of NowsÂ— 'Tis not a different timeÂ— Except for InfinitenessÂ— And Latitude of Home
The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.
Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of them will suffer shipwreck, and some-the loss of their souls. Let the indiscriminate viewer beware.
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.