Quotes about cities
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. Jane Jacobs
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.
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 hit release road smaller
We are going to hit the smaller cities on road after the release of the new album. Lars Ulrich
cities new-orleans world
New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size. Billie Holiday
cities actors village
I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I thought you would have to live in a big city, or be discovered somewhere, or be born into an artistic family, which I certainly wasn't. Diane Kruger
cities car needs
The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. Dean Kamen
cities giving should
A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness Clarence Stein
cities people youth
Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth. Elizabeth Hardwick
cities needs great-cities
I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center. Eli Broad
cities america museums
Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.
cities vegas las-vegas
Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops. Eli Roth
cities organization people
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city. Arthur Keith