Education Quote by Jane Jacobs

I think there's something very peculiar about living in the city and not part of the major metropolis; that actually makes it remarkably easy…

— Steven Wilson

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.

— Rem Koolhaas

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one…

— Georg Simmel

If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I…

— Wim Wenders

The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is…

— William Hazlitt

“All metropolises have one thing in common: they are made up of a crowd of lonely people”

— S.E. SEVER

“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud…

— Italo Calvino

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk

The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic…

— Paul Theroux

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

— Paul Theroux

All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.

— Charlie Brooker