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“San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.”

Wells Community Space Cities Behinds Providing Urban San Francisco Lag Open Spaces Canopy

Author:Gavin Newsom

“Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.”

World Space Cities Giants Internals Far Away Personal Things

Author:Regina Spektor

“If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.”

People Ifs Knows Way Needs Kind Character Running Space Cities Treats Who You Are

Author:Chris Messina

“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.”

Social Space Cities Policy Healthy Safe Function Aim Democratic Meetings Urges Architect Sustainability Urban Urgent Lively Integrated Democratic Society Planners

Book:Cities for People

Source: Cities for People

“God is a racist! He has a special elite race of supermen who are going to live above all others in the Holy City, the magical, mystical, marvelous, mysterious Space City!”

Space Race Cities Special Holy Mysterious Heavenly Racist Elites Marvelous Mystical

Author:David Berg

“Have your name put in the Lamb's Book of Life in Heaven so you'll be sure you've got your reservation confirmed for one of those mansions in God's golden Space City!”

Book Names Heaven Space Cities Golden Heavenly Lambs Mansions Reservations Book Of Life

Author:David Berg

“I belong to the Kingdom of God, that's my Country! I'm from Space City, that's my City! I'm from the City that hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God!”

Country Space Cities Foundation Kingdoms Heavenly Makers Kingdom Of God Builder

Author:David Berg

“Maybe it'll move around, who knows?-So it can minister to different parts of the World! If it can float down from Outer Space from God out of Heaven to the Earth, then it probably can still float around the Earth and hover here or there or set down here or there. After all, it's only 1500 miles square and 1500 miles high!-With God, a city like that can just float around!”

Ifs Knows World Stills Different Earth Moving Heaven Space Cities Miles Ministers Heavenly Squares Floats Outer Space

Author:David Berg

“The Lord may want to colonise other Worlds with His new perfect children! What's the whole Universe for and all this huge amount of space if He's only interested in colonising one little Planet? What an incubation! What an incubator for other civilizations!-Right here on the New Earth and the Heavenly City!”

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Author:David Berg

“There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is-to live, to work.”

Believe Space Cities Half New York Population Hypocritical

Author:Gloria Naylor

“I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars which dream beneath the sea, known and favoured by a nightmare cult ready and eager to loose them upon the world whenever another earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the sun and air.”

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“We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets or distant space cities, they will look back at our achievement with wonder at our courage and audacity and with appreciation at our accomplishments, which assured the future in which they live.”

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Author:Walter Cronkite

“The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.”

Giving Mind Body Space Views Race Cities Air Birth Breathing Mind And Body Confined Degenerates Hurtful Stagnant Metropolis Breathing Space

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.”

“In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.”

Problem Dream Order Space Numbers Cities Fiction Technology Imagine Science Fiction Including New Technology

Author:Ray Bradbury

“The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.”

Important Space Cities Example Essentials Importance Important Things Loyalty Parks Things In Life Pedestrians Love And Loyalty Beauty Love

Author:Enrique Penalosa

“You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.”

Hard Grows Church Space Cities Source Harder Transformation Plant

Author:Erwin McManus

“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.”

Bigs Spiritual Grows Space Cities Clear Greater Protect Unique Hunger Landscape Damage Homeland Settlement Big Cities Uncontrollable

Author:Fritz Todt

“We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.”

Space Cities Half Technology Five Land Connections Towns Edges Enormous Contact Zone Wilderness Settlement Satellites Disconnection Time Zones Half Time

Author:B. W. Powe

“I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.”

Believe Humans Art Form I Believe Natural Space Cities Environment Streets Century Performances I Believe In Diverse 21st Century Art Dance Street Life

Author:Antony Gormley

“That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.”

People May Children Long Real Play Values Space Cities Sun Quiet Taxes Europe Greed Long Ago Refuge Marvelous Estates Old People Great Cities Contractor Estate Taxes

Book:Fresh from the Laundry

Source: Fresh from the Laundry

“The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.”

“Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.”

Ifs Reality Imagination Space Secret Cities Cutting New York Poet Creating Tradition Myth Disappear London Paris Rome Sail Floats Moscow Leningrad

Author:Nina Berberova

“The heart itself is only a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and lions, there are poisonous beasts, and all the treasures of evil, there are rough and uneven roads, there are precipes; but there too is God and the angels, life is there, and the Kingdom, there too is light, and there the apostles and heavenly cities, and treasures of grace. All things lie within that little space.”

Heart Littles Light Life Is Lying Evil Space Cities Grace Angel All Things Treasure Kingdoms Beast Heavenly Dragons Rough Lions Vessel Apostles Poisonous

Author:Macarius of Egypt

“There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.”

Want Enough Facts Term Hours Space Cities Wonderful Huge Conversation London Theatre Insane Cinema Facility Oxford Bookshops Open Spaces Metropolitan

Author:Mark Haddon

“The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.”

Want Needs Humans Enough Space Cities Color Nurturing Saturated

Author:Janet Echelman

“The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.”

Thinking I Can Self States Remember House Easy Space White Forget United Cities United States Circumstances Office Window Fortunate White House Self Contained

Book:President Wilson's Addresses

Source: President Wilson's Addresses

“Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.”

Want Giving Ends Care Process Space Cities Starting Population

Author:Jaime Lerner

“There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul Like a day on a stream, Back on the banks of the old fishing hole Where a fellow can dream. There's nothing so good for a man as to flee From the city and lie Full length in the shade of a whispering tree And gaze at the sky. . . . . It is good for the world that men hunger to go To the banks of a stream, And weary of sham and of pomp and of show They have somewhere to dream. For this life would be dreary and sordid and base Did they not now and then Seek refreshment and calm in God's wide, open space And come back to be men.”

“I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.”

Needs Bigs Culture Stuff Space Cities Silence Middle Listening Grew Grew Up Horse Contemporary Grass Mexico Riding Bugs Big Cities Open Spaces New Mexico Bombarded Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Tom Ford

“I love New York. It's given me so much as a designer. When I moved here, I wanted to tap into the glamour of the city immediately. More than anywhere else, New York offers itself up - you arrive and get a rush in a flash. It's dazzling. Everywhere you look, there is decoration, from a pair of jewel-encrusted shoes in the window in Bergdorf Goodman to the Chrysler Building. And New York is incredibly democratic. Everyone is packed into this tiny space. You are confronted with all manner of people, and I love that.”

“I didn't want to be driving to work everyday and sending out my Starbucks order. I didn't want to be in New York or L.A. I wanted to have space and I wanted to be in a remote place where all of us could just be ourselves and not worry about anyone trying to listen in or get in on that. I wanted to just be comfortable. I feel like being in a big city - as much as I find New York, in particular, very inspiring in a lot of ways - can also be claustrophobic.”

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Author:Scarlett Johansson

“But interestingly Star City's technology is all 1970s - still. In fact, it's alarming because you think, "You're not going to send someone up into space in something that old, are you?" But it works and it always has worked and it doesn't fail and it's incredibly reliable.”

Thinking Stills Facts Stars Space Cities Technology Failing

Author:Danny Boyle

“The problems with conventional parking meters are myriad. Nevertheless, two advanced technologies, multispace parking meters and curb-space occupancy sensors, can make it much easier for users to pay for curb parking, and for cities to adjust prices to meet the demand.”

Two Problem Space Pay Cities Technology Easier Demand Users Conventional Nevertheless Parking Meter Curb Advanced Technology Sensors Parking Meters

Author:Donald Shoup

“As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.”

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Author:Diane Ackerman

“I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail.”

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Author:Vito Acconci

“Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.”

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Book:Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story

Source: Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story

“City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.”

Space Cities Green Majority Primaries Parks City Parks

Author:Bruce Babbitt

“I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!”

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Author:Brian Blessed

“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.”

Men Made Space Cities Quality Known Greater Sky Offers Machines West Wide Quantity Uncertain Frontiers Laboratory Skyscraper Open Spaces Wild West Wide Open Spaces

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to them than to most contemporary art; they make the city a free space of diverse voices and we shouldn't get all cynical about them just because Banksy made some money. I collaborate sometimes with Krae, who is an old school east London graffiti writer.”