Changed Quote by Jonathan Meades

There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of London] becomes…

— Alasdair MacLean

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything…

— David Bailey

“Because it is the triumph of a lack of planning –both for good and bad. It's chaos –and whether you say that with a…

— China Miéville

It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead…

— Anthony Trollope

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 price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take…

— Joseph Rykwert

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 I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

— Anais Nin

There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the…

— Howard Jacobson

Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people…

— Richard Rogers

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. But it is also a hard city and it wears…

— Rebecca Loos

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

— Marilyn Hacker