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Cities are about juxtaposition.
In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes.
A city is a sea that you lose things in. You only find things that other people have lost.
Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.
The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.
It's never the same city. Your city isn't even the same as my city, I bet.
Listen. I own this city. Bought and paid for. I have the key to the city in my pocket and a tattoo that says 'Fuck you. I'm the Mayor.'.
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.
hidden in this huge city beats in unison the heart of a whole people seeking to find their route to a better future.
A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it's incomplete.
the city is humanity intensified - a magnifying glass that brings out the very best and worst of human nature
Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.
Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent.
Eyes mark the shape of the city.
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
Does that city create its citizens, or is the city only a dream of its citizens.
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape
God! I loove this city!
They were born in the city from people born elsewhere.
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.
Thriving metropolis. Home to dozens.
Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.
The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.
I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail.
Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity.
My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest.
all the women in the city
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don't count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.
The Composite City where all human potentials are spread out in a vast silent market.
Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.
The city is a device for measuring time.
Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.
Blame the city I'm a product of it
A city is simply a passel of people packed in a pot like pickles.
This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.
we may always find a great and a beautiful city in the world for ourselves but the most precious and finest city to live in is our mind; a positive mind and a per second positive thoughts
The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.
That underlay the city of Chicago.
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American
A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness
New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.
The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.
New York is the last true city.
We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.
How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.
Cities are platforms for sharing.
Cities don't change people. People don't even change people. We are who we are.
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
It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire ... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.
The city loves you when you're flying high and kicks you when you're down.
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
My city too turnt up, Ill take a fine for that.
And somewhere
out there,
in the river of
addicts,
alcoholics,
wife beaters,
doormats,
overeducated legalized thieves,
fascist police,
and bitter rivalries
someone told me
it's a good city,
and I don't know
what's more frightening
There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.
A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.
Brooklyn, New York, and
The cool, grey city of love.
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
A city presents many different faces, and it is up to the traveller to assemble the proper composite.
Good morning, the city says. Fuck you.
The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.
The city bursts with ideas as with traffic, a swirl of newness and surprise. Who can be bored in a city? If you are tired of one activity you can try something else, change your job, take your custom to another restaurant.
I believe that feeling like a human, behaving like a human, responding like a human to others and to your surrounding environment is the key to living a fulfilled life in the city.
a city that took more from them than it ever gave back
It's a strange city ... filled with things that are not obvious.
Each one of us possesses in himself a separate and distinct city, a unique city, as we possess different aspects of the same person.
I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.
The city that acknowledges and celebrates our common fate, that opens doors to empathy and cooperation, will help us tackle the great challenges of this century.
What makes cities great, and what leads to their gradual demise? As this book will argue, three critical factors have determined the overall health of cities - the sacredness of place, the ability to provide security and project power, and last, the animating role of commerce.
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
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 are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is "Yokel", but San Francisco is "City at Heart".
They say the city gets in your blood, but that's crap. The city doesn't become part of you... you become part of it. It soaks you up bit by bit, year after year. Until you're just a tiny part of its system... Pumping through its veins, lost in its arteries.
This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?
This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.
In all the cities of this year
I have longed for the other city.
The city of the future is a city that cares about its citizens and integrates its citizens.
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.
[Los Angeles] the world's biggest third-class city ...
This is the city of disguises.
Every city has a village in its heart. You will never understand the city, unless you first understand the village.
The city's a heart, I said, and in that a heart and a city were sutured into a third thing, a heartish city, and cities are heart-stained, and hearts are city-stained too.
To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.
I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
City diversity represents accident and chaos.
A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves,
Once there was a city of women.
Every city is a living body.
I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears.
A city of squalls, foggy mornings, intervals of blue and white so immaculate the eyes ached. A city of readers, coffee drinkers, kissers on sidewalks, sad faces at wet windows. A city of umbrellas, woolen scarves, raincoats, cigarettes, wineglasses, cognac.