2,160 Quotes About City

Free and alone in the maze of the city, the flâneur craves a revelation that might change his life and destiny.

He liked city walking. He didn't want to have to go to that place called countryside to take a walk. He wanted to stuff his hands in his pockets, set his internal compass vaguely east or south and wander till he was tired enough to get the bus home.

It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.

There is no limit on the level that the reflections can be at and in a modern environment, such as a city, the albedo can increase the power levels many times of the sky based solar radiation of direct and diffuse combined. The trees prevent the albedo reflections from occurring.

I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.

No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout the necessity for spreading people through time of day without frustrating its potential for generating diversity.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.

We cannot bring peace in our city, when there is no peace in our homes.