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Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's…

— Walter Benjamin

“There is an endless chain of cities, a circle without beginning or end, over which there breaks unrelentingly a shifting wave of laws. There…

— Michal Ajvaz

“Below the roads run the surveyors' lines which squared off the wilderness, and not only made it ready for sale but constructed a shape…

— Andro Linklater

“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models.…

— Cristina Martin

“This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Imagine a safe city with all the affordable housing we need, a city that uses its resources to help lift the marginalized up and…

— Ted Wheeler

“Because of its search for comprehensiveness, his narrative is an organically multidirectional movement rather than a straight journey on a highway interrupted by less…

— Silvia Montiglio

“Centuries old, but recently widened, the highway was the same road used by pagan armies, pilgrims, peasants, donkey carts, nomads, wild horsemen out of…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

“The road is a river of ice, slick and unforgiving. A harsh sweep of white iron, smooth as glass and cold enough to freeze…

— Ned Hayes

“Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it’s said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be…

— Valeria Luiselli