Cities Quote by 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

I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.

— Joanne Harris

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

— Anne Rice

[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

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

— David Byrne

I think cities are the primordial forests of our time. We evolve faster as a species in cities. Cities are chaotic, liminal places where…

— Chris Abani

When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you…

— Geoffrey West

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

— Jaime Lerner

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 produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than…

— Junot Diaz

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

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places.…

— Aldo Rossi