Badges Quote by Jonathan Raban

Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They…

— Dick Powell

The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

— Rem Koolhaas

When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large…

— Ilona Andrews

“hardest thing to face in life is isolation in your own city”

— Sunil Sharma

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself…

— Walter Benjamin

“As the urban world becomes more hazardous, stressful, and complex, there are those who will be attracted to a simpler way of life.”

— John A. Hostetler

A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways…

— Charles Abrams

“With its population made up of two categories of people, those who do business and those upon whom they prey, the city has only…

— Thomas Bernhard

When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

— Zach Condon

I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.

— Joanne Harris

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

— Clarence Stein