God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voice-lessness.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

Tis the men, not the houses, that make the city.

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

What we get in the city is not life, but what someone else tells us about life.

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

Cities produce ferocious men, because they produce corrupt men; the mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.