The critics don't build great cities

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