City Quote by Robert D. Kaplan

The American public is a very specialized public.

— Sergio Leone

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

As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a…

— Frederick Law Olmsted

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

— Bruce Babbitt

Our public spaces should be places that are inclusive, that bring people together.

— Jagmeet Singh

I feel really passionately about safe, comfortable roads, crosswalks, and sidewalks. Everyone of all economic backgrounds should be able to get to school or…

— Ben Sollee

The open and generous nature of the American people has the capacity to astonish and push boundaries. We crowdfund, sign petitions, dump buckets of…

— Blase J. Cupich

In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives…

— Charles Koch

Public place is a good place to mind one's own business, god damn hard as that may be.

— Grass Hopper

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become…

— James Howard Kunstler

We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted…

— Enrique Penalosa