Baffled Quote by James Buchan

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

— Aldous Huxley

“Its first postulate is that the contemporary urban environment is so complex and so vexatious in its demands that no group of ordinary, unaided…

— Adam Greenfield

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

“We will never solve the problems of cities unless we like the urban-ness of urban life. Cities aren't villages; they aren't machines; they aren't…

— Elizabeth Wilson

It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting…

— Michel de Certeau

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives…

— Italo Calvino

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide…

— Antony Gormley

We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to…

— Daniel Libeskind

“The interesting thing about cities isn’t what they do when people are looking,” Ben says. “It’s what they do when they think nobody’s looking.…

— Scott Kenemore

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material…

— Jonathan Raban

The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are…

— Robert Ardrey

“That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting…

— Robert Walser