Words matter. These are the best Livable Quotes from famous people such as Jamshyd Godrej, Jack Dangermond, Naomi Klein, Prince Charles, Stella Young, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Besides infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity in housing and urbanisation of cities – not only building new ones, but also renewing the infrastructure of old cities to make them more livable. This provides tremendous scope for large investments to fuel growth.
Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.
There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It’s not a replacement.
The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character.
It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world. I suppose it all depends on what makes a city ‘livable’ for you.
When a parent says about a book, ‘That’s not my child’s world,’ I remind them of the future. Social fluency will be the new currency of success. Not experiencing diversity challenges our kids’ future in the global work force. It handicaps them from making America and the world more livable and just.
We need to invest in our people and a livable planet if we want to build an economy that works for everyone.
While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.
The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.
The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
This thing is such a ripple, the way lives are affected by gentrification. On one hand, yes, you’re cleaning up this area, you’re making it more livable for people. But you’re not saying anything about the people that live there.
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune, ecstasy, that kind of thing. But no, contemporary urban theorists seem satisfied with the merely livable, which always sounds to me like the merely survivable, the not so bad.
Donald Trump has courageously taken on the entrenched special interests who sought to suppress the working people of this country and who have sought to deny them a livable wage.
I am not a nationalist in any way, and I hate flag waving, and I don’t think much good has come out of nationalism. I am proud of Scandinavia in the sense that we have actually managed to create a very tolerant and human society, which is very livable.
America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.
Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.
We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference.
I’m from Vancouver and friends of mine will shoot something up in Vancouver and they’ll be like, ‘Ugh.’ They’ve never been to Vancouver and they’re like, ‘They got me stuck in Vancouver for three months.’ I’m like, ‘No, you’re being set free. It’s one of the most livable cities in the entire world.’
The most important thing is guaranteed livable income, which will take a while to bring in because it means all the provinces have to participate.
I think that people need a livable wage.
Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
I do not support a livable wage.
I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of gradual steps toward new transportation and energy policies, livable cities, and more humane, efficient transit systems.
I’m really not livable with when I’m rehearsing because I’m living the character.
If we’re serious about our kids having a livable world, building fossil fuel infrastructure in 2018 is a sign of deep negligence, which is the kindest thing I can say about it.
Establishing a ‘livable wage’ floor would immediately reduce the gap in average pay between American women and men.
Athens is one of those cities that is very livable. And it’s inexpensive. You can get by. And that makes for creativity. So people tend to stay there. I still have some friends there that never left.
I deal with creativity all the time. What I have fun with is trying to transform creativity into business reality all over the world. To do this, you have to be connected to innovators and designers but also make their ideas livable and concrete.
