Agency Quote by William Cronon

“When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack…

— Donald Miller

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They…

— Leon Krier

“It wasn’t a city, it was a process, a weight on the world that distorted the land for hundreds of miles around. People who’d…

— Terry Pratchett

“Imagine cities that resemble forests, technologies that heal rather than harm, and societies rooted in balance and cooperation.”

— Ken Breniman

“But cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out…

— John Updike

Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by…

— Geoffrey West

“...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and…

— Toni Morrison

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

— Geoffrey West

“Cities require connectivity rather than territory in order to drive their economic stability and growth.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Cities balanced on the edge of sustainability, always one step from starvation. When you pressed so many people together, their cultures, ideas, and stenches…

— Brandon Sanderson

“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

— Epictetus

“The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It…

— Anne LaBastille