Community Quote by David Christian

“Urbanity provides us with so many ways to avoid people. Isn't that what distinguishes it from traditional rural life, where the onus, perhaps because…

— Tabish Khair

“decline, fear of strangers and an unfamiliar world—is corroding the trust and interdependence on which civil societies rest.”

— Tony Judt

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through…

— Thomas Szasz

“The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition of…

— Terry Eagleton

“No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout…

— Jane Jacobs

“Individuals and cities without love are a danger to themselves and to others.”

— Elena Ferrante

“Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“As the urban world becomes more hazardous, stressful, and complex, there are those who will be attracted to a simpler way of life.”

— John A. Hostetler

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are,…

— Jane Jacobs

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns…

— Genevieve Gorder

If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much less violent and tend to think…

— Meda Chesney-Lind