Cities Quote by Charles Abrams

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash…

— Herb Caen

Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than…

— Junot Diaz

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say…

— Eric Bogosian

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take…

— Joseph Rykwert

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the…

— Hesiod

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require…

— Will Wright

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and…

— Charles Abrams

In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping…

— Alex Steffen

When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large…

— Ilona Andrews

The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's defining ethos…

— Nathan Glazer