Cities Quote by Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr

“A cluster of municipalities with charming provincial enmities, their own internal fights, and people out to get one another aggregates to a quite benign…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“But no city-state ever solved the problem of incorporating new territories and new populations into its existing structure, or involving really large numbers of…

— Joseph Reese Strayer

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we…

— Molly Ivins

“...the Midwest is coping with a twenty-first-century problem [globalization] with a nineteenth-century political and social structure [relying on state and city solutions rather than…

— Richard C. Longworth

Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become possible, because…

— Jane Jacobs

One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if they were…

— Jane Jacobs

“Cities require connectivity rather than territory in order to drive their economic stability and growth.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Towns [in the Midwest] with immigrants are growing. Towns without immigrants are shrinking. It's as simple as that.”

— Richard C. Longworth

“As a newcomer I felt that this was indeed a blessed place, capable of unabashedly advertising its flaws, fearing no ridicule and no criticism.…

— Andrei Codrescu

I mean, being provincial is a privilege in a way. Also people in New York think everybody interacts because they all take the subway.…

— Meghan Daum

As the world's 'most dynamic' cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors…

— Robert Hormats

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

— Jane Jacobs