#cities

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#beautiful #cities #contrary #convinced #me

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#before #bombed #bombing #cities #civil

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human. ↗

— Clancy Brown

#atrocities #beliefs #color #creed #happen

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments. ↗

— Bob Goodlatte

#businesses #cities #citizens #developments #farms

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#become #cities #corrupt #europe #get

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#anywhere #century #cities #drive #hard

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#around #blinds #cities #come #come and go

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#been #call #capacities #drinks #even

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety. ↗

— Bill Schuette

#basic #cities #flourish #four #fulfill

In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics. ↗

— Sally A. Kitt Chappell

#design #parks #urban #architecture