“These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town.” WayGivingCountryTodayNaturalCitiesModernAdvantageTownsMonstersAssociationCountrysideModern SocietyBlight Author:James P. Cannon
“Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!” HandsSeemsChurchGraceModernDivinePleaseSurvivalTownsRaisedVariousStrikesArchitectureLightningTowersRivalsHere I AmOverlookedDivine GraceForgetfulFrills Author:George Santayana
“Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.” NeedsCitiesCompassionPracticeKindnessVirtueModernOffersTownsNeighborUrbanAnonymityUnlearnUnfriendlyGregariousness Book:The province of the heart Source: The province of the heart
“The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.” PeopleMenMindHas BeensRunningTodayCitiesModernWeaponsDestructionTownsCamerasInstrumentsPhotographFactoriesFrighteningWarfareRuinedSpyBombingMappingForerunners Author:John Steinbeck
“One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.” ThinkingWritingBeautifulReadingModernBuildingReaderProjectsStonesTownsFolksArchitectureSovietHousingIdenticalPublic Housing Author:Christine Jennings
“We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.” StreetsModernDeterminationTownsAcceptedPlanning Author:Le Corbusier
“Just growing up in Columbus, which is such a special place, small town with a Fortune 500 company's headquarters, the extraordinary modern architecture. The experiences that I've had growing up in that very unique hometown has shaped me and always will shape me.” CompanyGrowing UpGrowingModernSpecialShapesUniqueTownsFortuneExtraordinaryArchitectureSmall TownHometownColumbusSpecial PlacesHeadquartersModern Architecture Author:Mike Pence
“Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.” IfsHouseWaterModernChangedTownsEdgesBoringArchitectureAdmireShipsTallMuseumsOperaEightyDowntownHarbourModern ArchitectureFerryOpera HouseOsloTall Ships Author:Jo Nesbo
“what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.” AnimalRoomsFiveModernDangerousTownsWoodsMilesWildernessSolitaryCrowdedExoticZoosModern DayExotic Animals Book:The Age of Missing Information Source: The Age of Missing Information
“We say it’s a modern American Western - two gunslingers who ride into town, fight the bad guys, kiss the girl and ride out into the sunset again. And we were always talking from the very beginning that if you’re going to have cowboys, they need a trusty horse. —Eric Kripke on the decision to add the Impala” IfsNeedsTwoGuyGirlFightingDecisionTalkingModernKissingHorseTownsAddWesternSunsetCowboyBad GuysEricGunslinger Author:Eric Kripke