Culture Quote by David Harvey

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

— Derek Walcott

“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse energies are…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only…

— Barbara Kruger

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic…

— Jane Jacobs

City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.

— Charles Landry

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Culture is the glue that really binds, especially in cities with fast-growing populations.

— Munira Mirza

Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture…

— Thomas Heatherwick

What if cities embraced a culture of sharing? I see a future of shared cities that bring us community and connection instead of isolation…

— Joe Gebbia

When we cut off access to certain parts of our cities to people on bikes or in wheelchairs, we're not only doing economic damage,…

— Ben Sollee

I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging…

— Lionel Shriver

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music,…

— Fredric Jameson