Quotes about cities
cities vandalism rebuilding
But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities. Jane Jacobs
cities dwelling downtown
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.
cities diversity chaos
City diversity represents accident and chaos.
cities borders use
A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.
cities definitions way
[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.
cities people doe
In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.
cities errors design
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.
cities support income
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.
cities numbers diversity
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.
cities ideas people
All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.
cities support pieces
This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.
cities giving diversity
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.
cities safe city-streets
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.
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.
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.