Assembly Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.

— Joanne Harris

The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are…

— Robert Ardrey

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices…

— Thomas Carlyle

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

— Aristotle

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

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

— Margaret Mead

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

— Sophocles

“QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AND REFLECTION 1. How would you describe your own attitude toward cities? Indifferent? Hostile? Romanticized? Positive? In what way has this…

— Timothy Keller