“Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.” PeopleFeelsHumansCitiesMinesDependsLondonMuseAmbivalence Author:Will Self
“There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.” WantGovernmentLawLeftWaterRoomsCitiesCenturyDependsMiracleDiedAgreeMissionsProtectionDisasterTyrannyWelfareCompanionCaptainsTransportationDwellers Book:Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
“The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.” WantHumansIndividualProcessChangeFreedomCommonCitiesLibertyPowerRightsDependsExerciseResourcesTransformationHuman RightsAccessArguingInevitableCollectivesUrbanMaking ChangesNeglectedRemakesIndividual LibertyCollectivityUrbanization Book:Social Justice and the City Source: Social Justice and the City
“Creativity cannot be really regulated, but it can be encouraged. The redevelopment or revitalization of a city is an art. It depends on the individual strengths of a place and the will of the leadership to bring about change. The goal is to establish a cultural infrastructure.” ArtIndividualGoalCitiesCreativityDependsInfrastructureBe EncouragedIndividual StrengthRevitalization Author:Charles Landry
“The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.” SocialCitiesResponsibilityDependsPoliceAidsIntenseSpiteMutualBehaviourSophisticatedPolicemenSurveillanceBreakdownCohesionAmerican Cities Author:Colin Ward