Cities Quote by Leonardo DiCaprio

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

— Jacque Fresco

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must…

— Jane Jacobs

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

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea…

— Jonah Lehrer

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

— Jane Jacobs

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles…

— Geoffrey West

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic…

— Jane Jacobs

That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do…

— William J. Mitchell

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the…

— Jane Jacobs