Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had.
Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it.
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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 ev...
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is their cousin. Her hair is dyed autumn red or aubergine or Egyptian henna, de...
There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and particularly the understanding of that part of the then-existing group-civilization w...
We no longer produce laborers, we would rather pray to God to send laborers to come and build our cities
Having spent a long time in open spaces, whether sea or desert, it is a luxury to be able to take refuge in towns with narrow streets which provide a fragile fortress against the assaults of the infin...
Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!
A soulless city creates soulless people!
In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety than they are in cities under the blight of a besieging army. Private sorrows are more bitter than pu...
American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, carton...
We have grace of strength to work, to clear our cities of any dirt.
Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other b...
I hate Billings Montana. They have a fashion show at Sears Roebuck - no models. You open a catalog and point.
You can't love a city if you have no memories burried there.
2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already had the water, he just had to discover jars). At one point I laid each chapter out on the terraz...
Of all the cities he had been to—Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City—San Francisco was by far the worst.
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.
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