Aspiration Quote by John Dewey

I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is…

— Richard Rogers

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

— Raymond Williams

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

— Jane Jacobs

The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the…

— Colum McCann

The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from…

— Franz Beckenbauer

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the…

— Jane Jacobs

“How is it that people look at the same city and see such very different places? The answer lies in history, or, more accurately,…

— Matthew Klingle

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer…

— Rose Wilder Lane

Whether we like it or not, the modernity is something that comes from Western countries, and when the modernity comes to the Eastern countries,…

— Asghar Farhadi

The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.

— Ko Wen-je

What I also discovered was that, during the War, the whole of Europe had become a fortress. And thus I saw to what extent…

— Paul Virilio