Cities Quote by Rebecca Solnit

Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It…

— Jan Gehl

In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing.…

— Jan Gehl

We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to…

— Daniel Libeskind

I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the…

— Antony Gormley

We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make…

— Jonathan Raban

One of my philosophies is that citizens are the mayor... so we have citizens play an integral role in making policies and implementing them.

— Park Won-soon

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect…

— Leon Krier

Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism,…

— Ellen Lupton

The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are…

— Robert Ardrey

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of…

— John Ruskin

Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions,…

— Cory Booker