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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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