2,405 Quotes About Cities

Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!

Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself— loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.

We have grace of strength to work, to clear our cities of any dirt.

Living in a city shouldn't make you cynical and living in a village shouldn't make you vulnerable.

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination — through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

By spending resources and designing cities in a way that values everyone's experience, life can get easier and more pleasant for everyone. We can make cities that are more generous and less cruel. We can make cities that help us all get stronger, more resilient, more connected, more active and more free. We just have to decide who our cities are for. And we have to believe that they can change.

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.