18 ordspråk av Joel Kotkin
Joel Kotkin
[Add to the list of recovery factors an intangible: spirit.] Cities will themselves to be great, ... It's an underappreciated factor.
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[But the Orange Line] doesn't go anywhere you would want it to go, ... It's a tour of the industrial bowels of the Valley. And there's no place to stop to get a cup of coffee.
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Calgary is obviously going to keep growing and it should anticipate the challenges the city faces as it grows bigger.
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Cities will themselves to be great. It's an underappreciated factor.
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Growth is itself a spur. If you're a dentist, there are more teeth to fill. If you're an accountant, there are more taxes to examine.
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If your job is in the outer beltway of Houston, living downtown becomes less appealing.
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It's about creating a sense of identity which the suburbs currently don't have.
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My theory is Americans are villagers, basically. We want the private space, the single-family house. But we want also the public space.
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New Orleans has to rebuild not just its buildings and its political culture, but its image, ... The City: A Global History.
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People want to know whether a place is a credible first-world city. What they found in New Orleans was that underneath the gloss and facade of a first-world tourist attraction was a third-world reality. It will take a lot of work to erase that view.
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Some of those industries have gone away, but some have migrated to other more energetic places. Look at Houston. It was nothing at the start of the 20th century, (but) now it has the port business and the energy industry that used to belong to New Orleans.
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The City: A Global History.
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There's always going to be a Mardi Gras - at least, a lot of Americans hope there will always be, ... But that doesn't mean that has to be the only reason for your economic existence.
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There's always going to be a Mardi Gras - at least, a lot of Americans hope there will always be. But that doesn't mean that has to be the only reason for your economic existence.
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There's always going to be a Mardi Gras -- at least, a lot of Americans hope there will always be, ... But that doesn't mean that has to be the only reason for your economic existence.
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