Urban Improvement Quotes

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.

If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.

Coming from Paris, I'd really like to live in Rio. I think it's gotten better. It's not as violent. The economy is better. The middle class is rising.

Philadelphians continue to benefit every day from the flow of federal dollars to improve our infrastructure and create jobs.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

The Huashan project is a clear example of how an urban element, key to the successful growth of the city, can at the same time improve the quality of life for its citizens, thanks to an integration of all three bridges and the creation of boulevards on the banks of the canal.

The recurring question that anyone from Bihar gets is whether Patna has improved. I'm not interested in answering that question.

I care about making New York better.

The City gets more and more beautiful every time I come home.