Ethos Quote by Michael Azerrad

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

— Wallace Stegner

“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but…

— Fredrik Backman

“He'd never seen it in person before (the main quarry); it was larger than he'd expected. When he'd first taken an interest, some decades…

— Max Barry

The thing about that too is that we had the same extras everyday. It was such a community. It was like a microcosmic little…

— Erika Christensen

The town is divided into various groups, which form so many little states, each with its own laws and customs, its jargon and its…

— Jean De La Bruyère

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone…

— Scott Westerfeld

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map…

— Michael Stipe

“The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of integrated and…

— Sverker Sörlin

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

— Doris "Granny D" Haddock

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

— Hedda Hopper

Cities are a melting pot for different ideas, and diversity brings a high-energy rhythm that I don't think we'd know was gone until it…

— Joe Gebbia

“Was it that these particular occult streets had been made, then hidden? Their names leaked as traps in an elaborate double-bluff, so that no…

— China Miéville