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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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

    "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.
  • 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 (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press
  • 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.

  • 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.

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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.

  • 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 (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press
  • 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 (2012). “City: Rediscovering the Center”, p.109, University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

    "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).
  • Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”
  • 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.

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