C Quotes
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“Cities are not problems. They are solutions.”
“Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.”
“Cities are platforms for sharing.”
“Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.”
“Cities are the abyss of the human species.”
Source: Emile: Or, On Education
“Cities are the crucible of civilization.”
Source: Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
“Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.”
“Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for -- the centre of mass.”
Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy
“Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.”
“Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.”
Source: The Sociology of Georg Simmel
“Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.”
Source: More stately mansions: a story
“Cities at daybreak are no one's,
and have no names.
And I, too, have no name,
dawn, the stars growing pale,
the train picking up speed.”
“Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams.”
Source: The Information
“Cities begin to use cultural production as a way to market their city as being unique and special. Of course, the problem with this is that much of culture is very easy to replicate. The uniqueness begins to disappear. Then, we have what I call the "Disneyfication" of society.”
“Cities can be rebuilt, industries can be rebuilt, what really matters are strategy forces, military forces and the cadres leaders, political, military and economic.”
“Cities can do this. Cast off their onetime identity and - while wearing the same (but now reconstructed) exterior-become something new. We as individuals can also change physical shape. We can lose weight and gain muscle, or go the other way and give in to flab. We can wear clothes that speak volumes about the images we want to present to the world. We can display our wealth, our poverty, our sense of confidence, our sense of self doubt. We can, like cities, change all the externals. But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated by the accumulation of life's manifold complexities- it's capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what has happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got, all that we got but never wanted, all that was found and lost.”
Source: The Moment
“Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.”
Source: A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
“Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.”
Source: The Chocolate War
“Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.”
“Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.”
“Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.”
“Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones”
“Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.”
Source: The Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man
“Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.”
“Cities have filled up with the homeless!”
“Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.”
“Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be inverted. The journeys we make during the reading of a book trace out, in some way, the private spaces we inhabit. There are texts that will always be our dead-end streets; fragments that will be bridges; words that will be like the scaffolding that protects fragile constructions.”
“Cities have personalities, just as people do, and that finding the right place to live is akin to finding the right partner to live with.”
Source: The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
Source: Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.”
Source: Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
“Cities have to realize that whatever the federal government is going to do, its not going to be enough. And cities that proactively take control of their own quality of life initiatives are going to be the cities that ultimately attract the highly talented young people and create the jobs.”
“Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important and strategic.”
“Cities like Portland, Seattle, and Long Beach, which have made these investments in their infrastructure, are seeing not only health advantages, but also a lot more exchange in the community, which leads to better policy-making and stronger communities.”
“Cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountains, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature!”
“Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.”
“Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.”
Source: Cities for People
“Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”
“Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.”
“Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. My new hypothesis shows why. But also in trading with each other they can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another.”
“Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.”
“Cities originally surrounded by a wall can produce an urban population cut off from the surrounding fields and from agriculture altogether. At the same time, the greenbelt laws eliminate the possibility of the unchecked expansion of a city into a monstrous megalopolis. If there is a need for additional homes, a new city must be established.”
“Cities pour forth a virus. Humans are infected and told to build cages that no one should want to live in. Or cities are a pyramid scheme: everyone is supposed to be there, I am an everybody, so I will move there and bring two others, who will bring two more.”
Source: Holidays with Bigfoot
“Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.”
“Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most of us care to imagine. Cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable.”
“Cities really are different. They make a weight on the world, a fear in the fabric of reality.”
Source: The City We Became