Book Quote by Teju Cole

In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I don't mean…

— Teju Cole

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered…

— Richard Rogers

I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

— Colson Whitehead

“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces.…

— Rasmenia Massoud

Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Cities are about juxtaposition.

— Richard Rogers

Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a…

— Roberto Rossellini

We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the…

— Greg Nickels

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide…

— Antony Gormley

“I missed my father driving us back from the Pomona State Fair, elbowing me awake, the Dodger postgame on the radio as I rubbed…

— Paul Beatty

Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be…

— Valeria Luiselli

“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets,…

— Italo Calvino