Breeding Quote by Allan Fromme

“This much freedom leaves you on your own. More Americans than ever before live alone, but even a family can exist in isolation, just…

— George Packer

There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you…

— Mohsin Hamid

Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.

— Matthew Desmond

There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

— Margaret Craven

“A city uninhabited is different. Different from what a "normal" observer, straggling in the dark - the occasional dark - would see. It is…

— Thomas Pynchon

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

— Henry David Thoreau

“ A CHANGING SOCIETY What does today’s high incidence of social anxiety tell us about modern society? As we’ve seen, social anxiety is connected…

— Jonathan Berent

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the…

— Jane Jacobs

The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas…

— Rem Koolhaas

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are,…

— Jane Jacobs

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

— Anonymous

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.

— David Byrne