Cities Quote by Raymond Williams

On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered…

— Raymond Williams

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the…

— Jane Jacobs

A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and…

— Charles Abrams

The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“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

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer…

— Rose Wilder Lane

“How is it that people look at the same city and see such very different places? The answer lies in history, or, more accurately,…

— Matthew Klingle

“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

Cities are about juxtaposition.

— Richard Rogers

It is important to understand the philosophy of the city and country.

— Claudio Ranieri

“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

A unitary urbanism — the synthesis of art and technology that we call for — must be constructed according to certain new values of…

— Gil J Wolman