Aspect Quote by Chris Abani

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love,…

— Alice Walker

The urban, on the other hand, is often seen as more real and mundane, even though it is obviously far more recent in terms…

— Quentin S. Crisp

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and…

— Anonymous

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out…

— Olivier Theyskens

Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by…

— Geoffrey West

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

— Geoffrey West

Cities are complex and contain just about any thing or concept ever invented by humans. How the city is built, its topography, and how…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures…

— Renzo Piano

Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into the ecosystems…

— Annalee Newitz

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life.…

— Richard Rogers

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Unfortunately, there is no rule saying a city must be a nice place to live in order to attract fast population and economic growth.…

— Laurence C. Smith