Ancient greece Quote by Joseph Reese Strayer

“These urban provinces, new to the American scene, possess greater economic, social, and cultural unity than most of the states. Yet, subdivided into separate…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr

“Cities require connectivity rather than territory in order to drive their economic stability and growth.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“statehood was crucial to future national existence.”

— Timothy Snyder

“A cluster of municipalities with charming provincial enmities, their own internal fights, and people out to get one another aggregates to a quite benign…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

We would like to have a great future, so we need to think about the urban philosophy, the urban problems, and the construction of…

— Burhan Sonmez

“The assumption that the city, the state, or even the federal government has the plans and the wherewithal to handle this particular crisis is…

— Ted Koppel

“We must make the American people hear our Tale of Two Cities. We must convince them that we don't have to settle for two…

— Mario Cuomo

“But nothing lasts forever. This city is changing for the worse. Sure it's getting bigger and it looks nicer, but the novelties are disappearing.…

— Jason Myers

Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.

— Eric Garcetti

“Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the…

— William Cronon

“important political center and the capital of a vast territory with”

— Jérôme Sabatier