Believe Quote by Gloria Naylor

I got interested in the contradiction between people who are understanding the city by not moving a single inch, by remaining in the same…

— Iain Sinclair

This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we…

— Moshe Safdie

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

— Toyo Ito

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must…

— Jane Jacobs

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

— Aldous Huxley

Everybody lives in a city, cause there's not too many people in the small towns who can find work.

— J. J. Cale

Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern…

— Peter Diamandis

If we're going to make a city everybody can live in for a lifetime, we need to make sure we are building and growing…

— Betsy Hodges

If you ask people why they move to the city, they always give the same reasons. They've come to get a job or follow…

— Geoffrey West

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify,…

— Zaha Hadid

For too long, politicians have pretended to be bystanders to this cost of living crisis. But the truth is that city government has the…

— Zohran Mamdani

The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which…

— Ma Yansong