Quotes About Urbanization

#1. As affluence and urbanization rise in a society, rates of depression and suicide tend to go up rather than down.

Sebastian Junger

#2. 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

#3. Climate change. Urbanization. Biotechnology. Those three narratives, still taking shape, are developing a long arc likely to dominate this century.

Stewart Brand

#4. Civilization is knowledge, even more than it is urbanization, for you cannot have the latter without the former. Everything builds on everything else. And the knowledge of civilization is kept in repositories known as ... LIBRARIES, and if books burn, civilization burns with them.

James Turner

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term.

Mick Cornett

#10. 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

#11. In order to adapt to a changing world, we must help, or at the very least not hinder, global transformation and the concomitant socioeconomic changes: urbanization, higher educational achievement, changes in employment structures.

Anonymous

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

Kushal Pal Singh

#13. If managed well, urbanization can create enormous opportunities: allowing innovation and new ideas to emerge, saving energy, land and natural resources, managing climate and the risk of disasters.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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

Kushal Pal Singh

#15. 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

#16. The history of the development of any urban center will be incomplete without a mention of the role of mass transit in the whole process. In deed the role of mass transit as a catalyst of industrial revolution and urbanization cannot be over emphasized. In the case of the New

Clifford N. Opurum

#17. Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#18. In other words, a serious crisis of nonrenewable energy resources is likely to accelerate the urbanization trend, not derail it.

Steven Johnson

#19. Becoming a modern society is about industrialization, urbanization, and rising levels of literacy, education, and wealth. The qualities that make a society Western, in contrast, are special: the classical legacy, Christianity, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, civil society.

Samuel P. Huntington

#20. From a distance, at a time of urbanization and connectivity, rodeo and ranching may seem anachronistic notions - quaint and sepia-toned from an America that no longer exists.

John Branch

#21. The logical extension of a burgeoning population and urbanization is the conversion of open spaces into paved ground. This has resulted in flooding of cities as well as water scarcity due to groundwater depletion and the lack of rainwater harvesting.

Anonymous

#22. China's urbanization supported the country's impressive growth and rapid economic transformation.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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

Camille Paglia

#24. UTC is very well positioned to take advantage of 2 large megatrends: urbanization and the fast-growing commercial aerospace market.

Louis R. Chenevert

#25. It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

H.G.Wells

#26. I used to hate being recognised.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#27. Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Oscar Wilde

#28. Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture of abundance, one of the only ways Satan can keep Christians neutralized is to wrap us up in pride. Conceit slips in like drafts of cold air in the winter. We don't see it, but outsiders can sense it.

David Kinnaman

#29. The City was the acme of efficiency, but it made demands of its inhabitants. It asked them to live in a tight routine and order their lives under a strict and scientific control.

Isaac Asimov

#30. Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

Stephen King

#31. There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City.

Isaac Asimov

#32. I rolled my eyes. I hated his smirks. Sigh. I loved his smirks.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#33. I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.

Anton Chekhov

#34. Drugs are always fun.

Irvine Welsh

#35. 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

#36. The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

Larry Bird

#37. 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

#38. Effective tidying involves only three essential actions. All you need to do is take the time to examine every item you own, decide whether or not you want to keep it, then choose where to put what you keep. Designate a place for each thing.

Marie Kondo