Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family type neighborhood.
So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you and fight alongside you until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God.
The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.
Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.
London is the most commercially important city in Europe, and it's the most populous city. It should be for the whole of the European continent what New York is to America. That's what it should be.
I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.