Quote by Edward Luce Download Open image ““For all the emphasis we place on our multicultural cities, they epitomise our oligarchic reality.”” — Edward Luce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“This is, however, about showing the whole world that we as a city and as a people are able to acknowledge, understand, reconcile and… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
“It can only benefit the city to have endless waves of exceptionally capable, even brilliant, folk unfettered by class and family connections. They change… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“There is a great deal of nonsense written on the subject of diversity and multiculturalism, but the fact remains that the great challenge facing… — Maria Poggi Johnson Copy Share Image
“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“We must make the American people hear our Tale of Two Cities. We must convince them that we don't have to settle for two… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“hidden in this huge city beats in unison the heart of a whole people seeking to find their route to a better future.” — Dulce Rodrigues Copy Share Image
“But nothing lasts forever. This city is changing for the worse. Sure it's getting bigger and it looks nicer, but the novelties are disappearing.… — Jason Myers Copy Share Image
“That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“If every community acts collectively, the city shall be clean.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Davos has become the emblem of a global elite that has lost its ability to listen.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“By any numerical measure, humanity is becoming rapidly less poor. But between half and two-thirds of people in the West have been treading water… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Cowen detects conformism even in the liveliest Silicon Valley companies. Most of its denizens wear some variation on the casual hipster uniform and all… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“It would also require a conscious effort to look at the world from unfamiliar standpoints and admit that the West has no monopoly on… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Almost half of Americans would be unable to pay a $400 medical emergency bill without going into debt.67” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“In the US, the more liberal a city’s politics, the higher the rate of inequality.45” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“With chisels and pickaxes we made our tiny contributions to this orgy of historic vandalism.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“the Toil Index – the number of working hours it takes a median worker to pay the median rent in one of America’s big… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Today’s equivalent is probably ‘get an engineering degree’, but it will not necessarily be as lucrative. A third of Americans who graduated in STEM… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Shortly afterwards Addis Ababa launched a crackdown on its opponents that resulted in hundreds of deaths. If America’s president was in two minds about… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Émile Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, said that when societies hit a civilisational break the suicide rate soars.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image