Athens Quote by Stephen Gardiner

Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.

— Allan Jacobs

Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Every city has streets that were built under an unlucky star. And they don’t have to be located in the outskirts, either. Sometimes they…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither the physical…

— George Monbiot

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

The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind…

— Wyndham Lewis

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

— Leon Battista Alberti

You cannot live in the best city in the world and have people living on the streets.

— Sadiq Khan

The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a…

— Anonymous

“Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people. The flow of less advantaged people into cities from Rio to Rotterdam demonstrates urban strength,…

— Edward Glaeser

Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to…

— Jacque Fresco

“Some cities are like joyful little children, they live for their summers, and other cities have personalities more like curmudgeonly old men who live…

— Benjamin Hale