2,405 Quotes About Cities

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

We are already seeing such good results that I think this will convince other cities to take a look at this.

La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.