Architecture Quote by 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 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

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

— Geoffrey West

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

— David Byrne

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash…

— Herb Caen

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that…

— Louis Kahn

A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and…

— Charles Abrams

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

— Paul Goldberger

“The two dominant components that constitute a city, its physical infrastructure and its socioeconomic activity, can both be conceptualized as approximately self-similar fractal-like network…

— Geoffrey West

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work…

— Lewis Mumford