I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

I really see Compton as a place with a lot of opportunity. It has a rich history, a strong community that has a strong sense of pride.

I needed to understand the spirit of a tall building, what makes it important, what should I try to achieve in a tall building. It became a very interesting problem, something that I like very much.

I come from Carol City. The city renamed it Miami Gardens.

America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.

There's a lot that the city can do, and it depends on having a partnership with community members who are living the realities.

As it happens, I have personally been somewhat of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly because a bit of wasteland will be transformed into something better, and because it tends to make...

Gentrification and housing shortages are complex issues.

No one is going to come here if it's a filthy city, if it's not a safe city.

In all these years, I've witnessed how beautifully Hyderabad has grown.

The Government regularizes illegal slums inhabited by outsiders, but the government workers or policemen do not get permanent houses in Mumbai.

London, a city where creativity and innovation have always flourished, provides a significant home for Starbucks and a significant gateway into Europe.

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the...

What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.

We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.

If I become mayor of London, my single biggest priority will be to build thousands more homes every year. I will set a target to make half of all the new homes that are built genuinely affordable,...

Now that Sacramento is building an arena downtown, they're the only one not in an urban core. The only one. It's really not good business. It's nothing against Auburn Hills, Oakland County or L....

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

After World War II, communities and the trust they fostered began to erode in the United States. We moved away from dense city centers to fenced in suburban lots separated by broad highways.

Economically, the business development of the greater Hyderabad region has made the city integral to the state.

Ginza! Where I've done two Chanel towers and Louis Vuitton and Dior stores. I just feel at home there.

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

Part of the power of having startup communities is it continues to challenge the status quo. So for many of these cities that were once very important and powerful that today are struggling, startup...

Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.

We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understands the need of working families.

Manhattan is an island. It is a concrete rock. And on top of that island are trillions of dollars.

Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop...

Setting San Francisco on a course to sustainability will require all of us to work in concert on a number of ambitious efforts.

Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water...