“If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.” PeopleIfsMightUnderstandingCitiesAttitudeSouthLondonContemptYuppies Author:Martin Cruz Smith
“Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach 'back to nature' or 'forward to a world of love and beauty'; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell - that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.” MenWorldMayReasonDreamEarthPastBeautifulPoliticalHeavenEmotionCitiesAttitudeHellSucceedSpringMiracleFellowsIntentionAppealsDesperateHeavenlyIrrationalFellow ManRomanticismIntoxicationHeaven On EarthRadicalismBeautiful WorldBest Intentions Book:The Open Society and Its Enemies Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies
“I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.” IfsWellsBigsCitiesAttitudeDiverseResidentsTorontoMulticulturalDemonstrating Author:Roger Martin
“We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store windows, or just reach for the yellow pages and have them delivered. It is the same mindset at work, spreading in our world, and after a while this attitude can find nothing very special about anything or anybody, let alone whales.” WorldHumansAgeHuman BeingsCitiesAttitudeStreetsSpecialMajorsPagesWindowMindsetStoresOur WorldYellowOfferingWhales Book:Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
“The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.” SoulBodyEvilCitiesAttitudeAirBuildingBuiltSickRoseVisibleUnconsciousNightmareBarrenWonderlandSemblanceApparitions Author:Allen Ginsberg
“"Triennale in the City" is a scheme that is of priority for the sponsoring local government. For many local governments, revitalization is an important mission for the local community, and, therefore, the attitude to achieve this mission through the cultural and/or artistic activities should not be denied.” ShouldImportantGovernmentCommunityCitiesAttitudeAchieveActivityMissionsPrioritiesLocalsArtisticDeniedSchemesLocal GovernmentLocal CommunityRevitalization Author:Yasumasa Morimura