Artifice Quote by A. Bartlett Giamatti

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

— Jaime Lerner

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the…

— Jane Jacobs

I think that continuity is the most important way to create a city that functions properly and has a competitive edge in the international…

— Park Won-soon

“But ideal cities are very much the product of their own ages. Designed as complete urban statements, they bear the unmistakable imprint of their…

— Anonymous

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and…

— Anonymous

“Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.”

— Kate Milford

“with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Unitary urbanism's point of departure is the changeableness of our aspirations and our activities. We know that neither eternal truth nor absolute beauty exist…

— Tom McDonough

We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based…

— David Simon

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic…

— Jane Jacobs

“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models.…

— Cristina Martin