2,405 Quotes About Cities

A city without some form of a transect is like a country without a constitution; It is a breeding ground for spatial anarchy.

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.

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

Here in Turin you can write because past and future have greater prominence than the present, the force of past history and the anticipation of the future give a concreteness and sense to the discrete, ordered images of today. Turin is a city which entices the reader towards vigour, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way toward madness.

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

... Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.