Blindness Quote by Michel de Certeau

“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

“Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the streets, irreversibly…

— Henry Eliot

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material…

— Jonathan Raban

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of…

— James Buchan

“I confront the city with my body; my legs measure the length of the arcade and the width of the square; my gaze unconsciously…

— Juhani Pallasmaa

“The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to…

— Eric Sloane

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

“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

So he [Sigmund Freud] called this "the uncanny" and he also referred to cities as well, like the idea of walking through the city…

— DJ Spooky

“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces.…

— Rasmenia Massoud

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks…

— Aberjhani

“This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.”

— Amit Chaudhuri