John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

I am generally enthusiastic about cities. Here in the West there is a panic. Every time we have a debate about cities, we talk about the problems of cities.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

The Dallas model, prominent in the South and Southwest, sees a growing population as a sign of urban health. Cities liberally permit housing construction to accommodate new residents. The Los Angeles model, common on the West Coast and in the Northeast Corridor, discourages growth by limiting new housing.

We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven't done is developed our technology.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth.

I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on, but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Urbanization is the dominant demographic trend of our time.

Development has to rise if population is going to increase, Otherwise people will starve and all kinds of other problems.

Newark faces real challenges.

Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.

Mobility will be one of the major beneficiaries of population growth in the world.

As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought.

Our human population continues to expand at such a scary rate - it's unbelievable.

I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else is giving us accurate information: our beleaguered air and watersheds, our overworked soils, our decimated inner cities. All of these provide information our prices should be giving us but do not.