“The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.” PoorCitiesPovertyRichGreaterRichesElsewhere Book:Our country: its possible future and its present crisis Source: Our country: its possible future and its present crisis
“There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.” AmericaCitiesGreaterSummerLaborChicagoMemorialMemorial DayLabor Day Author:Michael Wilbon
“I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and colour which reminds me of the Mediterranean light and colour which so excites one's sense of form; and first and last there is the human figure which in the country becomes a free and moving part of a greater whole. This relationship between figure and landscape is vitally important to me. I cannot feel it in a city.” FeelsFirstsHumansImportantCountryWholeLightInspirationLastsMovingFormLinesCitiesQualityGreaterSeaLandFiguresLandscapeColourHorizontalFirsts And LastsMoving PartsHorizontal Lines Author:Barbara Hepworth
“The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable... when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.” BigsSpiritualGrowsSpaceCitiesClearGreaterProtectUniqueHungerLandscapeDamageHomelandSettlementBig CitiesUncontrollable Author:Fritz Todt
“There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a symbol of where art belongs, rising as it does out of the heart of a great city. A mighty castle on a hill, it is a part of me, and of all Glaswegians.” HeartDoeArtSpiritCitiesGreaterBuildingArt IsSymbolsArtisticHillsRisingScotlandCastlesGreat Cities Author:Peter Capaldi
“The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. Streets and highways carry the name of the Führer. Settlements today are not isolated communities, but rather parts of greater city-construction plans. Every work site must be properly located within its neighborhood and surrounding setting (i.e., the natural world).” WorldTodayNamesCommunityNaturalCitiesGreaterPlansStreetsProjectsAppearanceSettingSettingsOur TimeNeighborhoodConstructionFactoriesIsolatedSocialistSensibilitySiteWorkplaceHighwaysNatural WorldComradeSettlementExternal AppearanceConstruction Projects Author:Fritz Todt
“Your projects can often demonstrative new and innovative approaches that can be supported and eventually replicated with greater support from the public sector. Showing up and speaking up at city council and state legislature hearings are essential, but so is the project work.” StatesCitiesSupportGreaterEssentialsProjectsApproachHearingCouncilInnovativeLegislatureShowing UpSpeaking UpPublic SectorState LegislaturesCity Council Author:Mark Winne
“In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city.” CitiesGreaterThousandMembersHighestSpeciesKillingRateHomicideAmerican Cities Author:Daniel Dennett
“It is a good success to take people from the city to the forests; but there is a much greater success: To bring the forest to the people, to the cities! To bring heaven to the hell!” PeopleSuccessHeavenCitiesHellGreaterForestsGood Success Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property are devastatingly temporary. All she had to do was lie down for a prince. They burned the city to the ground.” MenHumansLittlesRememberLyingPassionCitiesGreaterCenturyBattleProveDaughterWeightPropertyHuman LifeTemporaryBurnedDecorum Author:Brenna Yovanoff
“Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.” MenMadeSpaceCitiesQualityKnownGreaterSkyOffersMachinesWestWideQuantityUncertainFrontiersLaboratorySkyscraperOpen SpacesWild WestWide Open Spaces Author:Rem Koolhaas