City Building Quotes

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

— Jane Jacobs

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

— Helmut Jahn

“Shouldn't a real city have at least one building with an elevator?”

— Bill Rowe

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

— Anonymous