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Cities Quotes - Page 70

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

Jerry Della Femina (2010). “From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harb: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.59, Basic Books

Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?

Jane Jacobs (2016). “Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs”, p.84, Random House

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.13, University of Illinois Press

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

Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.164, Hayes Barton Press

Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.

Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.185, Faber & Faber

Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

"Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, 1972.