Cities Quote by Edward Hoagland

“Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and…

— James Thurber

Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.

— Annie Dillard

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

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

“Folk wisdom: quaint sayings of urban sophisticates compiled from the suburbs.”

— Bauvard

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

“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

“Its first postulate is that the contemporary urban environment is so complex and so vexatious in its demands that no group of ordinary, unaided…

— Adam Greenfield

“The city as the engine for social change and increasing well-being is one of the truly great triumphs of our amazing ability to form…

— Geoffrey West

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

“When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place.…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the…

— Jane Jacobs