15 Quotes by Joel Kotkin

If your job is in the outer beltway of Houston, living downtown becomes less appealing.

Cities will themselves to be great. It's an underappreciated factor.

Calgary is obviously going to keep growing and it should anticipate the challenges the city faces as it grows bigger.

What makes cities great, and what leads to their gradual demise? As this book will argue, three critical factors have determined the overall health of cities – the sacredness of place, the ability to provide security and project power, and last, the animating role of commerce.

Without the notion of sacred space, it is doubtful cities could ever have developed anywhere in the world.

The global securities industry, for example, once overwhelmingly concentrated in the financial districts of London and New York, has gradually shifted an ever larger share of their operations to their respective suburban rings, other smaller cities, and overseas. The headquarters might remain in a midtown high-rise, but more and more the jobs are located elsewhere.