The slum is the measure of civilization.

Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy…

— Naomi Klein

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

— Mortimer Zuckerman

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

— Carlo Ratti

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled…

— Edward Abbey

All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled…

— James Cross Giblin

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

— Patrick Modiano

I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want…

— Pete Sessions

Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I…

— Lawrence Summers

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

— John F. Kennedy

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

— Greta Gerwig

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

— Moliere

Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.…

— Cesare Pavese

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

— Frederic Chopin

“We have grace of strength to work, to clear our cities of any dirt.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture…

— Anonymous