2,405 Quotes About Cities

The city's full of people who you just see around.

Spend twenty years there and you ask yourself how there can still be strangers with so many familiar faces ... it's probably that cities generate strangers continuously ...

In a city, with all of its enclaves and boundaries, both real and imagined, it is impossible not to feel the presence of those who are not like you and impossible not to feel like an outsider.

It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas and cultural energies are regarded as corrupt, one or another kind of pornography. This is how it is with towns.

Parks and playgrounds are the soul of a city.

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 to sea.

Städte lassen sich an ihrem Gang erkennen wie Menschen.

Οι πόλεις της ομίχλης είναι σκαθάρια μες στο γάλα, καψίματα απ' το στάξιμο του λυχναριού στους πορτολάνους - ξεχωρίζουν. Είναι συνήθως χτισμένες δίπλα στο νερό, κρυμμένες κάτω απ' τους στυλοβάτες του ουρανού, και ζούνε στη σιγή του χρόνου που περνά.

In postcolonial Africa, single dwelling housing is the biggest perpetrator of urban segregation.