Cities Quote by Charles Fourier

In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.

— Jane Jacobs

In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the…

— Jane Jacobs

Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and not because merchants…

— Bob Frank

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

They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts

— Richard Steele Sr

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

Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

— Allan Jacobs

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

— Terry Pratchett

“It is possible in a city street neighborhood to know all kinds of people without unwelcome entanglements, without boredom, necessity for excuses, explanations, fears…

— Jane Jacobs

Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned…

— Uzodinma Iweala