Aja Brown Quotes

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.

One great building does not make a great city.

In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

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.'

If, instead of hiring half-baked revolutionary planners to fill our college undergraduates with ingenious schemes to disperse populations, split up big cities into little ones, go underground or into distant places to escape bombs and congestion, abandon large urban areas in favor of roadside villages, we were to publish reliable, simply written, common-sense information to control the building boom, what a country this would be!

Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.

We want to shine a light on this great city of Baltimore. I can tell you, I love this city.

Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to transform historic properties.

The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.

I think for all of us who call East St. Louis part of our heritage, we want to make a better day for the city.

Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.

If we're going to make a city everybody can live in for a lifetime, we need to make sure we are building and growing for everybody.

When I was in L.A., the structure wasn't up to par as I wanted it to be.

I am dedicated to ensuring that the prosperity our city is experiencing extends to everyone who lives, works and visits Portland.

Urban planning should be done with the mindset that we are determining the city's fabric for 100 years to come.

I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast.

I heard that Hubballi-Dharwad is going to be a Smart City. But it should ensure the sense of community and love is not lost.

Compton looks a lot of different. Residents are now able to go out and grab a bite, go to dinner, go to Target, Best Buy or a gym or Marshall's. We're now able to experience more amenities. I want to see that grow.

Sydney CBD is the eastern city, Parramatta is the central city and Badgerys will be the third city in greater Sydney.

Detroit can become a national model for urban revitalization, but to do so, it must break free from past development models.

We're not really in the real-estate space so much as we are the community-building space.