Quotes about cities
cities jerusalem addresses
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. Ben Nicholson
cities errors design
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. Jane Jacobs
cities choices multiplicity
The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.
cities small-changes wealth
Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city’s wealth of public life must grow.
cities ballet improvisation
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.
cities creative together
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.
cities streets sidewalk
Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.
cities architect capability
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
cities paris london
Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend. James Weldon Johnson
cities venice mind
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
cities wonderful manchester
Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times. Benjamin Disraeli
cities crowds biomass
I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me. Alan Garner
cities numbers justice
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. Jane Addams
cities littles poor
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
cities forests sustainability
When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability. Janine Benyus
cities
There are some things cities can go after and some things they can't.
cities beast wild-beasts
The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places. Baltasar Gracian
cities cab ifs
I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs. Bret Easton Ellis
cities space green
City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans. Bruce Babbitt
cities government people
You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city. Edwidge Danticat
cities childhood forget
But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die Elif Safak
cities forced good husbands looking midnight money parts people regular socialize spend wives
We have husbands and wives and regular people who come here looking to unwind, socialize and have a good time. But then, at midnight they're forced to go spend their money in other cities or other parts of the county.
cities race stupidity
The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity. Charles Bukowski
cities sick sidewalk
I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.
cities clean
When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
cities rumor knows
One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is. Eleanor Roosevelt
cities scotland next
Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us. Ed Miliband
cities might edinburgh
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles. David Nicholls
cities garden land ruined shall waste
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
cities counties great larger major
Environmentally I think it's a great idea the larger counties with major cities that need that kind of thing.
cities domestic dubai outgrow quickly small
Dubai is a competitor. Small cities quickly outgrow their domestic markets.
cities dodgers draft harbor montreal opposition public sought vietnam war
During the Vietnam era, more than 30,000 draft dodgers and deserters sought harbor in cities like Montreal and Toronto, where public opposition to the war was strong and most residents didn't question their motives.
cities compare deal difficult great list security understand
We have done a great deal to tighten up our security. It is difficult to understand why we end up on the sustainability list when you compare it to cities that are going to get funding, like Memphis.