Ancient greece Quote by Giles Coren

The urban, on the other hand, is often seen as more real and mundane, even though it is obviously far more recent in terms…

— Quentin S. Crisp

A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware…

— Ma Yansong

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was…

— Gilbert Murray

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

Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

— John Barrowman

I guess what I find interesting is city folk are the least capable of survival of any human being.

— Andrew Schulz

In traditional cities like Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, nature was a very important part of urban planning - not only as a landscape but…

— Ma Yansong

The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like…

— Samuel Johnson

“There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities…

— Jane Jacobs

“Some cities are like joyful little children, they live for their summers, and other cities have personalities more like curmudgeonly old men who live…

— Benjamin Hale

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.

— Thucydides

We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as…

— Thom Mayne