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“A city is a place where interesting always beats beautiful.”
― Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays

“If the city was dreaming," he told me, "then the city is asleep. And I do not fear cities sleeping, stretched out unconscious around their rivers and estuaries, like cats in the moonlight. Sleeping cities are tame and harmless things."
"What I fear," he said, "is that one day the cities will waken. That one day the cities will rise.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End

“cities really are different. They make a weight on the world, a tear in the fabric of reality, like . . . like black holes, maybe.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City Born Great

“It is no surprise this is the reputed to be the greatest city in the world. It is a blob of brick and neon connected by the arterial subway, equal parts fear and wonder. It breathes, more robotic than organic, but alive.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot

“I wanted to love the city. There is an electricity to the dullest day here that overpowers its clinging aroma. Friends have moved cityward, rarely seen again, each acting as though they relocated to Shangri-La, despite muggings and struggling.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot

“People were never supposed to live in cities. They gathered together since they were scared and then living like that only made them more and more afraid.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Korea vets in flannel shirts down from Michigan, accompanied by ruddy grandsons in Under Armour camo jackets, coexist peacefully with Montessori moms navigating strollers between clumps of grandparents eyeing big baskets of apples and small ones of plums. Trucker hats are worn without irony here; the hipsters are welcome but not in charge.”
― Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

“Then I would jump on a streetcar, along tram lines since torn out, and let it carry me into the West Side, to step off in a neighborhood and wander into a bakery full of East European delights or a tavern where people were swilling Drewrys beer and speaking the language of the old country.”
― Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

“But it is too late. The tether is cut and we are here. We become! We stand, whole and hale and independent, and our legs don’t even wobble. We got this. Don’t sleep on the city that never sleeps, son, and don’t fucking bring your squamous eldritch bullshit here.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City Born Great

“Today, humans in cities will see a hundred beings in just minutes, naming them strangers, a dehumanizing designation.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“By spending resources and designing cities in a way that values everyone's experience, life can get easier and more pleasant for everyone. We can make cities that are more generous and less cruel. We can make cities that help us all get stronger, more resilient, more connected, more active and more free. We just have to decide who our cities are for. And we have to believe that they can change.”
― Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

“The great thing about big cities is that there are so many places to hide when you want to disappear!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Did the nightmares of the cities put out the fire of your soul? The best way to rekindle that fire is to surrender your soul to the forest!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“They spent the night tucked beneath a spare scrap of canvas in the boat bottom, listening to the sluicing of waves against the pine-tarred hull and watching the night wheel over them like a dancer's star-studded skirt. Ade nestled into the softness of his arm and thought about happily-ever-afters and sweet-tasting endings. Yule thought about once-upon-a-times and bold beginnings.
At dawn they departed. When asked what she wanted to see, Ade replied, "Everything," so Yule obediently charted a course toward everything. They docked first at the City of Sissly, where Ade could admire the pink domes of the local chapels and taste the pepper-bite of fresh gwanna fruit. Then they stayed three nights on the abandoned Island of Tho, where the ruins of a failed City loomed like broken gray teeth against the sun, before skipping along a string of low, sand-scoured islands too small to be named. They walked the streets of the City of Yef and slept in the cool grottoes of the City of Jungil, and walked across the famed bridge connecting the twin Cities of Iyo and Ivo. They sailed north and west, following the summer currents out of the sweating heat of the equator, and saw Cities so distant even Yule had only read their names on his charts.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“On the same day as the USA returned to manned spaceflight in 2020, there were protests and riots in many American cities.”
― Steven Magee

“Les villes sont des palimpsestes.”
― Lyonel Trouillot, Ne m'appelle pas capitaine

“Our future belongs to cities.”
― Reichental, Smart Cities For Dummies

“The problems of the school, we have been told, are intimately related to those of the city. Commissioner [of Education Harold] Howe said that we cannot have good schools if we have bad cities. I would agree with this statement, but I would carry it a step further: We cannot have good cities unless we have a good nation. And to have a good nation, we must face, once and for all, the problems of poverty and race. Only through the formulation of a national program to eliminate poverty and racial discrimination can we lay the basis for a good, let alone a great, society.”
― Bayard Rustin, Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

“Cities pour forth a virus. Humans are infected and told to build cages that no one should want to live in. Or cities are a pyramid scheme: everyone is supposed to be there, I am an everybody, so I will move there and bring two others, who will bring two more.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot

“El viajero reconoce lo poco que es suyo al descubrir lo mucho que no ha tenido y no tendrá.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“More than any city I know, San Francisco is made up of discrete neighborhoods, each with its own unique aura. The main reason for this is its terrain. Its convoluted landscape defines San Francisco's neighborhoods, endowing each of them with a specific terroir.”
― Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco

“San Francisco, by contrast, is all about the collision between man and the universe. It is on auto-derive. Anarchic, blown-out, naked, it shuffles its own crazy deck. To walk the streets is to be constantly hurled into different worlds without event trying. As William Saroyan wrote, "The city has the temperament of a genius. It's unpredictable. Any street is liable to leap upwards at any time . . . It is a city with no rules. Like nature itself it improvises as it goes along.”
― Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco

“B the spring of 1848, the religious climate was still unsettled and ripe for progressive new ideas. America's cities were expanding, its populations swelling with immigrants from Ireland and Europe, its factories and ports booming all of which contributed to a rising mortality rate.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

“Rural landscapes can give the double illusion of being eternal and newly born. Cities, on the other hand, are marked with specific architecture from specific dates, and this architecture, built by long-vanished others for their own uses, is the shell that we, like hermit crabs, climb into.”
― Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things: Essays

“[Business in the Box] targets diaspora members living outside their birth countries particularly those in economically developed countries and native members of these countries wishing to initiate an informal way of doing business. Quebec is, as such, one of the largest ethnic communities ("nation") in Canada and with the "visible minorities" (especially Black communities), it faces the same daunting challenge of economic claim based on my analysis. Aboriginal communities themselves being more inclined towards issues of sharing revenues from the exploitation of their lands or estates.”
― Arnaud Segla, Business in the box

“The principle of solidarity between entrepreneurs can create a greater impact than the traditional view of competition in the community. Pairing economic structures is an attempt at regulating the imbalances brought about by globalization. With time we will see how to address interactions with those living in their native lands and who are more heavily involved in the informal economy.”
― Arnaud Segla, Business in the box

“The basic approach of the community economy is to benefit and to simplify the sound results of the market economy to build a knowledge base for the informal economy and then to redefine these concepts in an alternative model adapted to the context of the ethnic economy.”
― Arnaud Segla, Succeeding through the informal way

“If your objective is to have enough revenue for integration, or simply to obtain financial independence, it is necessary to find alternative ways to create resources in order to build up a assets that can be inherited.”
― Arnaud Segla, Successful Citizens through entrepreneurship

“I found Baghdad, like most big cities in the world: big, exciting, interesting, rich, poor, hot, cold, restless, sleepless, and cruel at one and the same time.”
― Louis Yako

“There is no country without a culture.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita