Ifs Quote by Jane Jacobs

A short distance away from thriving city centres in virtually all of our cities, you will find areas of endemic worklessness, alienation, crime and…

— Chris Grayling

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

— John Sandford

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.

— Jodi Picoult

“If I die tomorrow, Provincetown is where I’d want my ashes scattered. Who knows why we fall in love, with places or people, with…

— Michael Cunningham

There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation…

— Honore de Balzac

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

— Dionne Brand

Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and…

— Allan Fromme

“My hope, for all future generations, is that they will have (in addition to sunshine, fresh air, clean water, and fertile soil) a somewhat…

— Anonymous

“A city uninhabited is different. Different from what a "normal" observer, straggling in the dark - the occasional dark - would see. It is…

— Thomas Pynchon

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

— George Bernard Shaw

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to…

— Childe Hassam