Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is.

Popular Topics
Path Of Love, Glory, Food, Children, Like, Amazing Music, Knowledge, Humbly, Subject, Hope, Character, Thing, Memorable, I Miss You, Justice, Light, Funny, Life Is Good, Reality, Possible, Important, Intelligent, Poet, Body, Live, Love You, Perfect Love, Scholar, Bible, Adventure, Life Is Like, Evidence, Beauty, Achievement, Quite, Motor, Fly, Period, Brain, Song, Oceans, Thought, I Like You, Job, Hip Hop, Beach, Pleasures Of Life, Difference, Thinking, Name
Charles Landry

Detroit is an urban hell. But even in this city of the dying auto industry, there is reason to hope, if they manage to combine the creative forces of designers and other intellectual "suppliers" in other ways.

Cities, Combine, Creative, Dying, Intellectual, Urban
Same Author Quotes

Creativity cannot be really regulated, but it can be encouraged. The redevelopment or revitalization of a city is an art. It depends on the individual strengths of a place and the will of the leadership to bring about change. The goal is to establish a cultural infrastructure.

Art, Bring, City, Creativity, Encouraged, Individual Strength

As far as population size goes, big is no longer important, and it can even be a drawback. In fact, the future belongs more to second-tier cities. Any place can become a world-class center today by finding an area in which it outperforms others, by thinking for the long term, by expanding its competitive abilities and by operating globally.

Area, Belongs, Cities, Class, Thinking

City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.

Cities, Creativity, Lived, Performers, Years

All cities have one key resource: the special abilities of the people who live in them. You just have to find out what they are. In the Australian city of Adelaide, for example, which is overshadowed by Sydney and Melbourne, I discovered a number of experts in the penal system. I advised them to work with these special skills.

Cities, Example, Keys, Overshadowed, Skills

Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people.

Class, Order, Scene, Social, Technology
Similar Quotes