“Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.” — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
“I found Baghdad, like most big cities in the world: big, exciting, interesting, rich, poor, hot, cold, restless, sleepless, and cruel at… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“It was indeed the transcendent force of modernization that accounts for the unparalleled strength of Know-Nothingism in Massachusetts. The political fallout from… — John R. Mulkern Copy Share Image
Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from… — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
If you keen than hear. Which and what are the urban life taken away from me, Fragrance of soil have missing somewhere… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“The Fathers of the American Constitution, well-versed in the classical heritage, consciously constructed an awkward governmental system like republican Rome's: much better… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“Urban life itself acts as a giant particle accelerator. When people move to the city, they start to do everything faster.” — Carl Honoré Copy Share Image
“We will never solve the problems of cities unless we like the urban-ness of urban life. Cities aren't villages; they aren't machines;… — Elizabeth Wilson Copy Share Image
A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
What are the urban life taken away from me, ask listen | fragrance of the soil in the rain, the rain water… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“The absence of trust is clearly inimical to a well-run society. The great Jane Jacobs noted as much with respect to the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“The “dual economy” paradigm, originally proposed in 1955 by Sir Arthur Lewis, still shapes the way that most social scientists think about… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Continuous growth and the consequent ever-increasing acceleration of the pace of life have profound consequences for the entire planet and, in particular,… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“What are we to do with the knowledge that Tayo was once a woman? That Ceremony held but abandoned considerable investments in… — David L. Moore Copy Share Image
“With its population made up of two categories of people, those who do business and those upon whom they prey, the city… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover,… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
“Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just something you did while… — Choire Sicha Copy Share Image
“..Moloch who entered my soul early. Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body. Moloch who frightened me out of… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
