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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.

Mary Pope Osborne

A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.

Mason Cooley

Morning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don’t know how to wade through manure.

Melina Marchetta

Suburb: a place that isn’t city, isn’t country, and isn’t tolerable.

Mignon McLaughlin

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

Geoffrey Fisher

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.

Georg Simmel

Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that’s the only way I know to clear the thing up.

Will Rogers

People talk about wanting amenities – downtown is the amenity.

Jack White

Every city has to deal with the problem of cars and public transport.

Jaime Lerner

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

Henry David Thoreau

There’s only one thing for Chicago to do, and that’s to move to a better neighborhood.

Herman Fetzer

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded.

George Washington

You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment.

Graham Hill

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

H. G. Wells

The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today.

James Howard Kunstler

Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

James Howard Kunstler

New York is not even a city, it’s a congerie of rotten villages.

James M. Cain

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city’s disinherited.

Jane Addams

While farmers’ markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

Jasmine Guinness

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there’d be a rap song for you.

Jay-Z

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

Le Corbusier

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Lennart Meri

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