Best Smart Growth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are three key attributes that make people happy in their communities and cause them to develop a solid emotional attachment to the place they live in. The first is the physical beauty and the level of maintenance of the place itself - great open spaces and parks, historic buildings, and an attention to community aesthetics. The second is the ease with which people can meet others, make friends, and plug into social networks. The third piece of the happiness puzzle is the level of diversity, open-mindedness, and acceptance: Is there some equality of opportunity for all? Can anyone - everyone - contribute to and take pleasure from the community?”

Economics Urban Planning Smart Growth

Book:The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

Source: The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

“Infrastructure is always hugely expensive, and there's no clear way to measure the overall future return on investment, whether it's in the form of innovation, development, or new communities or jobs. Infrastructure provides a skeleton on which to grow a new economic model. The infrastructure investments we make now will determine the kind of economy we have in the future.”

Urban Planning Smart Growth Infrastructure Investment

Book:The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

Source: The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

“Economic systems do not exist in the abstract; they are embedded within the geographic fabric of the society - the way land is used, the locations of homes and business, the infrastructure that ties people, places, and commerce together.”

Business Economics Smart Growth

Book:The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

Source: The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

“The places that thrive today are those with the highest velocity of ideas, the highest density of talented and creative people, and the highest rate of metabolism. "Velocity" and "density" are not words many people use when describing suburbia.”

Economics Smart Growth

Book:The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

Source: The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

“Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.”

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“I think we can save a lot of money if we do smart growth, where we build the homes and all of this closer into towns.”

Ifs Thinking Home Growth Smart Towns Lots Of Money Smart Growth

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!”

Names Growth Nature Smart Butterfly Bees Conservation Breeze Amen Smart Growth

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.”

Shows Order Growth Nature Community Economy Environment Healthy Smart Built Green Show Me Conservation Infrastructure Smart Growth

Author:Will Rogers

“The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.”

Ifs Wells Looks Important Reason Growth Nature Community Economic Smart Well Being No Reason Conservation Smart Growth

Author:Ed McMahon

“The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.”

“High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.”

Use Growth Nature Decision Views Successful Land Taxes Smart Investment Environmental Employee Conservation Housing Employers Transportation Land Use Smart Growth

Author:Carl Guardino

“The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.”

“The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.”

“Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.”

Ifs Use Care Growth Nature Community Levels Teacher Plans Failing Smart Workers Income Variety Officers Conservation Housing Employers Firefighter Retail Rant Smart Growth

Author:Carl Guardino

“Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.”

Ifs Form Nature Willing Bigger Congress Appropriate Conservation Loops Smart Growth Paved Roads

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.”

Source: Selected poems

“The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.”

Doe Country Sound Nature Silence Parks Conservation Confined Tense Smart Growth

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.”

“Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.”

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