“It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to cities and industry, they will import more grain. As they do so, water scarcity will be transmitted across national borders via the grain trade. Aquifer depletion is a largely invisible threat, but that does not make it any less real.” DoeRealCountryWaterCitiesProduceIndustryTradeThreatEnvironmentalInvisibleBordersGrainScarceScarcityImportsIrrigationNational BordersAquifers Author:Lester R. Brown
“Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.” LifeCitiesProduceCitizensTasteMarkUglyAdvertisingAnarchyCitizenshipUglinessGood TasteGood CitizenGood Citizenship Author:Lester Beall
“Mayor de Blasio wants to eliminate garbage. He believes New York City produces way too much garbage. Well, heck, forget about producing too much garbage. What about late-night talk shows?” WayWantBelieveWellsShowsNightForgetCitiesToo MuchNew YorkProduceLateNew York CityGarbageMayorsTalk ShowsLate Night Author:David Letterman
“What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia. What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable. The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.” IfsMenNeedsAmericaLife IsPurposeAnswersCitiesCasesClearFailingMysteryProducePracticalsWhat IfPurpose Of LifeAutomobilePonderingErosionWhat Is The Purpose Of Life Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city.” CitiesCenturyCarProduceStressActiveToys21st CenturyViewersSpeeding Author:Chris Burden
“I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.” MenWorldLittlesHas BeensCountryNumbersCitiesKnownProduceTenTownsReputationGreat MenComplimentTwelve Book:The citizen of the world Source: The citizen of the world
“We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. They have to get on a bus and take a long ride to get to a source of fresh produce.” PeopleKnowsLongCitiesProduceSourceDistanceStoresDesertBusGroceriesGrocery StoresInner CitySuppliers Author:Michael Pollan
“City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary, or even efficient city, much less a beautiful one.” BeautifulCitiesProducePlanningRecognitionEfficientTrustedCan NotIntuitiveValidationCity PlanningSanitary Author:Murray Bookchin
“Only Los Angeles could produce a creature such as myself. New York is a boutique city. You have to be wealthy and of privilege to be able to live comfortably there.” AbleCitiesNew YorkProduceCreaturesPrivilegeLos AngelesWealthy Author:Vaginal Davis
“Cities originally surrounded by a wall can produce an urban population cut off from the surrounding fields and from agriculture altogether. At the same time, the greenbelt laws eliminate the possibility of the unchecked expansion of a city into a monstrous megalopolis. If there is a need for additional homes, a new city must be established.” IfsNeedsHomeLawCitiesCuttingFieldsPossibilityProduceWallPopulationAgricultureUrbanExpansionMonstrous Author:Yehuda Levi
“After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, wineries were paid to produce volume at a cheap price. That's when the Lambruscos and bad Chianti were popular.” PeopleWorldWarCitiesProducePaidMovedWar Of The WorldsAbandonedWorld War IiWorld War IVolume1960sVineyardsChianti Author:Joe Bastianich