Another Quote by Georg Simmel

“All metropolises have one thing in common: they are made up of a crowd of lonely people”

— S.E. SEVER

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

— Jane Jacobs

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.

— Rem Koolhaas

I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind.

— Jim Lee

“There is an endless chain of cities, a circle without beginning or end, over which there breaks unrelentingly a shifting wave of laws. There…

— Michal Ajvaz

I think there's something very peculiar about living in the city and not part of the major metropolis; that actually makes it remarkably easy…

— Steven Wilson

“A cluster of municipalities with charming provincial enmities, their own internal fights, and people out to get one another aggregates to a quite benign…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More…

— Samuel Garth

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

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

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the…

— Rebecca Solnit

“with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our…

— Mohsin Hamid