“Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'” ReasonSimpleCitiesSuccessfulPlansClaimsLaysThese DaysVibrancy Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler
“Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.” PeopleIfsKindChildrenCitiesSuccessfulSpeciesIndicators Author:Enrique Penalosa
“So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?” IfsShouldStillsMightFightingForceCitiesMorningGoneSuccessfulFourWeekStreetsWalkingArmyWake UpRoseShouldersLatterOverwhelmingCollapseSaddamRevoltRiflesBaghdadMilitiaOverwhelming Force Author:Robert Fisk
“Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores... [Microsoft] is going to experiment with holiday pop-up shops this year in various cities. I predict they will be hugely successful.” ShouldYearsWellsCitiesSuccessfulShould HaveVariousPopsDecadesStoresExperimentsApplesShopsHolidayMinimumMicrosoft Author:John C. Dvorak
“This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.” YearsBelieveHas BeensHomeAgeAmericaCitiesSuccessfulCivilizationSorryDecadesApartmentGreat Cities Book:The House in Good Taste Source: The House in Good Taste
“I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city you live in, or something like that, determines if you'll be successful, and that's not fair.” IfsThinkingCountryCitiesSuccessfulWiseStandardsFairsDetermineOur CountryUsaBeing SuccessfulNot FairDouble Standard Author:Charles Barkley
“Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.” NeedsKindIdeasSometimesMatterUseMightGrowsBusinessCitiesEconomySuccessfulImpossibleStreetsBuildingProveErrorsTrialsConstructionNew IdeasProfitableVigorousExperimentationOverheadOld IdeasOld Buildings Author:Jane Jacobs
“You look at Man United and Liverpool, and they are red - they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City.” MenLooksUnitedCitiesSuccessfulFansRedBiggerManchesterLiverpoolChelseaManchester CityMan United Author:Vincent Tan
“Creating a city for successful aging involves incorporating age friendly values into everything we do - every plan, every project, every design. I'm excited to be leading Honolulu in this effort, and I believe that it will be one of the most rewarding things I do as Mayor.” BelieveAgeValuesI BelieveEffortCitiesSuccessfulPlansDesignProjectsCreatingAgingExcitedFriendlyMayorsIncorporatingHonolulu Author:Kirk Caldwell
“I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.” PeopleShouldBelieveCountryStatesI BelievePayCitiesSuccessfulTownsOur Country Author:John Catsimatidis
“When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.” HumansWellsHeartLittlesJesusChristBornHuman BeingsCitiesSuccessfulMissingJesus ChristBaseballFilledHolesDefectsKansasKansas City Author:Carlos Beltran