Appreciate Quote by Arthur Erickson

I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“The whole appeal of medieval studies - the language, the literature, the history, the art and architecture - to immerse oneself in that world.…

— David Szalay

“There are regular towns and irregular towns, there are wounded towns and sober towns and fiercely remembered towns, there are useless, but passionate towns…

— Anne Carson

“A town’s history is like a rambling old mansion filled with rooms and cubbyholes and laundry-chutes and garrets and all sorts of eccentric little…

— Stephen King

The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the…

— Colum McCann

Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or artsy-craftsy architecture.…

— Robert Christopher Riley

“It is a southern river town with some pretensions of being a city... And like every southern river town it has its canker.... The…

— R.A. Lafferty

“Someone, he added, ought to draw up a catalogue of types of buildings listed in order of size, and it would be immediately obvious…

— W.G. Sebald

“For years, walking round London, I had been aware of the actual land, lying concealed but not entirely changed or destroyed, beneath the surface…

— Gillian Tindall

“Since the military part of town could not tolerate disarray and the commercial part found it unprofitable, all of the chaos had been pushed…

— Neal Stephenson

A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely,…

— Samuel Johnson

Today's builders and town planners believe people inhabit 'places'. Yet medieval towns were perfect examples of what planners seek: densely populated, walkable communities in…

— Lucy Worsley