Adolescence Quote by Anonymous

Cities need to reinvent themselves in order to stay alive.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

I think cities are the primordial forests of our time. We evolve faster as a species in cities. Cities are chaotic, liminal places where…

— Chris Abani

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

— Daniel Libeskind

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

So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

— James Norman Hall

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out…

— Olivier Theyskens

“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

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities…

— Marc Almond

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love,…

— Alice Walker

If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

— C. Wagner