Cities Quote by Jane Jacobs

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

— John Ciardi

the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is…

— Jean Baudrillard

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

— Murray Kempton

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

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

— Ice Cube

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.

— Wendell Berry

The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the…

— Nadeem Aslam

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.

— David Byrne

I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who…

— Jim Croce

We make a mistake when we stereotype neighborhoods as 'bad' and not worth our attention or investment.

— Ayanna Pressley

[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent period of…

— James Howard Kunstler