Cities Quotes

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This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other. — Jane Jacobs
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations. — Jane Jacobs
Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine… — Leon Krier
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land. — Leon Krier
A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims. — Leon Krier
In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional. — Leon Krier
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on… — Leon Krier
In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing. It… — Jan Gehl
A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves, — Jan Gehl
An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city. — Jan Gehl
The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall… — Henry George
I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857. — Edward Bellamy
Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of… — Aravind Adiga
But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of… — Antonin Scalia
I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from… — Bob Filner
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional… — Wynton Marsalis
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a… — Roland Barthes
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but… — Democritus
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all… — James Joyce
Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This… — Unknown Author
Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it… — Gorgias
Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything -… — Clive James
Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say,… — John Zorn
That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different… — John Zorn

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