Quote by Martha Bayne

“The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It…

— Anne LaBastille

“It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect; a city of…

— Neil Gaiman

“The city was a real city, shifty and sexual. I was lightly jostled by small herds of flushed young sailors looking for action on…

— Patti Smith

“When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place.…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“Folk wisdom: quaint sayings of urban sophisticates compiled from the suburbs.”

— Bauvard

“The city was different back then--poor and crumbling--kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt…

— Candace Bushnell

“For the city, his city, stood unchanging on the edge of time: the same burning dry city of his nocturnal terrors and the solitary…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I felt a thrill—a new civil affinity budding in my dreams and in the brick-and-mortar city, simultaneously: that we, the people, were awakening to…

— Aspen Matis

“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse energies are…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's defining ethos…

— Nathan Glazer

“We lived in the Portland Avenue Stacks, a sprawling hive of discolored tin shoeboxes rusting on the shores of I-40, just west of Oklahoma…

— Ernest Cline

“It is downtown that we usually hear about in the national press and it is downtown that is spurring the most development and commerce.…

— Aaron Foley