Cities Quotes

"Bike-friendly cities provide some of the best quality of life."

"I'm all for biking and bikeable cities."

“It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.”

“I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.”

"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody."

Jane Jacobs

"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears."

Italo Calvino

"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."

"Great cities attract ambitious people."

Paul Graham

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”

Jane Jacobs

“Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”

Jane Jacobs

“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art.”

Lewis Mumford

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

Le Corbusier

“Architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings actually fit with the way we want to live our lives.”

Bjarke Ingels

“There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.”

Jane Jacobs

“Men come together in cities in order to live; they remain together in order to live the good life.”

“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”

“Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.”

Lewis Mumford

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.”

Italo Calvino

“Earth has not anything to show more fair.”

William Wordsworth

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.”

Samuel Johnson

“Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.”

Jaime Lerner

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.”

Enrique Peñalosa