Quotes about cities
cities needs dull
Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves. Jane Jacobs
cities choices multiplicity
The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.
cities small-changes wealth
Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city’s wealth of public life must grow.
cities ballet improvisation
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.
cities people logic
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.
cities creative together
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.
cities streets sidewalk
Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.
cities architect capability
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
cities employee ability
City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference. Jane Byrne
cities people tonight
I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.
cities community months
In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.
cities tonight chicago
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
cities chicago neighborhood
Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.
cities work-out adequate
For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.
cities kansas-city america
Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state? Jane D. Hull
cities names design
Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with architectural meaning. Where else would a department store include in its advertisements the name of the architect who created it, or a newspaper property section throw in a scholarly exposition of theoretical design? Jan Morris
cities names giving
Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.
cities greed doubt
Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world.
cities paris london
Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend. James Weldon Johnson
cities venice mind
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
cities endlessly few geographic people physical politics tend washington
When it comes to Washington, most people tend to think first of politics. But Washington is also a geographic and physical place. It is, for instance, one of the few cities of the world where you can talk endlessly about trees. Katharine Graham
cities oklahoma-city addresses
I'm more focused on the positives of why I'm here. I'll be able to address those things in due time. Right now it's about the Thunder and Oklahoma City. Derek Fisher
cities growth arms
In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down. Denise Levertov
cities president locks
When I become president, all you assholes that ride bikes in the city? Lock and load! You're going down! Denis Leary
cities heaven empires
The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city. Deborah Kerr
cities light car
Cars are all jammed up all along the road and a light turns red and someone honks. In every one of those cars there is a story or a hundred stories. For every light on in al of those huge city buildings there is a story. No one knows what I am about to face and no one knows my story and neither do I right then. Deb Caletti
cities opinion overrated
Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican. Ed Stoppard
cities proud detroit
When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit. Ed Koch
cities missing littles
When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you. Eliza Coupe
cities community quality
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. Agnes Repplier
cities tombs tale-of-two-cities
Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques. Charles Dickens
cities mind vision
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
cities mind moral
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals. Charles Caleb Colton