Quote by Jane Jacobs

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in…

— John Hench

“It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect; a city of…

— Neil Gaiman

“Imagine cities that resemble forests, technologies that heal rather than harm, and societies rooted in balance and cooperation.”

— Ken Breniman

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people…

— Jane Jacobs

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say…

— Eric Bogosian

“You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so…

— Colson Whitehead

“People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're too stupid…

— Garret Keizer

“their worry that the city was too dangerous, a concern that frustrated me, immeasurably, because I knew where danger really lurked—in the woods behind…

— Roxane Gay

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

— David Harvey

“Although it has become the most visible of American suburban landscapes, the edge node has few architectural defenders. Even developers despair: 'Shopping centers built…

— Dolores Hayden

“A city is judged by the beauty of the children's parks.”

— Amit Ray

“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you…

— Matt Haig