Quotes about cities
cities support income
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities. Jane Jacobs
cities numbers diversity
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.
cities ideas people
All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.
cities support pieces
This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.
cities giving diversity
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.
cities safe city-streets
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.
cities needs dull
Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.
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 people logic
There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.
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 employee ability
City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference. Jane Byrne
cities people tonight
I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.
cities community months
In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.
cities tonight chicago
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
cities chicago neighborhood
Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.
cities work-out adequate
For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.
cities kansas-city america
Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state? Jane D. Hull
cities names design
Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with architectural meaning. Where else would a department store include in its advertisements the name of the architect who created it, or a newspaper property section throw in a scholarly exposition of theoretical design? Jan Morris
cities names giving
Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.
cities greed doubt
Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world.
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 endlessly few geographic people physical politics tend washington
When it comes to Washington, most people tend to think first of politics. But Washington is also a geographic and physical place. It is, for instance, one of the few cities of the world where you can talk endlessly about trees. Katharine Graham
cities feelings guilty
there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone. Charles Bukowski
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.
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 force lady ministry recruit stations women
We have requested the ministry to recruit more women for the force so that all stations in the big cities can have at least one lady officer.
cities commitment confidence eye federal folks government partner prize protecting resources restoring towns
The eye on the prize is that we get the resources we need so folks have the confidence that they can come back, and there's a long-term commitment of the federal government to be the state's partner in protecting our cities and towns from hurricanes and restoring the coast.