Ancestor Quote by Marshall McLuhan

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

“Unitary urbanism's point of departure is the changeableness of our aspirations and our activities. We know that neither eternal truth nor absolute beauty exist…

— Tom McDonough

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

Transformed people transform cities.

— Bill Johnson

“So the city emerges as man’s ultimate attempt to become manmade, born from himself rather than from Mother Nature. The feeling of self-sufficiency he…

— Monica Sjöö

“This – some say – confirms the hypothesis that each man bears in his mind a city made only of differences, a city without…

— Italo Calvino

As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.

— Julie Kagawa

“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the…

— Alice Munro

The whole function of cities has been transformed.

— Cleve Jones

A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware…

— Ma Yansong