Cities Quote by Richard Sennett

New York is just an energy. There's a beauty to the way it's laid out: the architecture, the way the planning is. It's huge,…

— El-P

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

— Alastair Reynolds

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody…

— Ai Weiwei

New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky,…

— Roland Barthes

“We thought of [New York] as a free city, like one of those storied prewar tropical nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and…

— Lucy Sante

New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them…

— Donald E. Westlake

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that…

— Martin Scorsese

“The interactive map, available online at welikia.org, is a fantastic snapshot of a different New York. In 1609, the island of Manhattan was part…

— Randall Munroe

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to…

— Griffin Dunne

New York City belongs to the people that was here and made New York City what it is.

— Eric Adams

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's…

— John Guare

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must…

— Jane Jacobs