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Urbanism Quotes

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

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

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Urbanism, City, Greatness, Population, Meaning

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"Cities must be fun."

"Cities must be fun."

James Rouse, American Businessman

Urbanism, Cities, Fun

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"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."

"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."

Italo Calvino, Italian Journalist

Urbanism, Cities, Order, Traveling

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"Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy."

"Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy."

Arthur Capper, American Politician

Urbanism, Bureaucracy, Creation, Open, Responsibility

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"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."

"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."

Italo Calvino, Italian Journalist

Urbanism, Cities, End, Variety, Will

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"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."

"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."

Truman Capote, American Novelist

Urbanism, Years

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"The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry."

"The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Urbanism, Beauty, Design, Chance, Poetry

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