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«After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.»
Author: Charles Krauthammer
| About:
Cities
| Keywords:
antiseptic, backpack, backpacking, commuting, freeway, freeways, great seal, office building, sealed, urge, woods
«A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and errors.»
«A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations.»
Author: Charles Abrams
| About:
Cities
| Keywords:
excitement, gas, gas station, highways, obliterate, obliterated, obliterates, slum, slumming, slums, stations
«And Kansas is at Chicago tonight or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas leads in the eighth four-to-four.»
«A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise»
Author: Mark Helprin
(Novelist)
| About:
Cities
| Keywords:
anarchy, architecture, bulls, classroom, classrooms, dullard, dullards, geld, gelded, obedient, tranquil
«Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Chicago,
Cities
| Keywords:
bravo, bravos, herd, journalistic, Yellowstone
«Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| About:
Cities
| Keywords:
Angeles, anonymity, area, automobile, blanketed, foul, freeway, freeways, garages, gas station, highways, land area, monopolize, monopolized, parking, parking lot, quarter, stations
«A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.»
Author: Kevin Starr
| About:
Cities
| Keywords:
bungalow, eucalyptus, palm, peppered, peppers, tree line
«All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Books,
Cities
| Keywords:
American values, bits, broadcast, broadcasting, broadcasts, contain, More information, the books, The Video, video, videos
«Cities are the abyss of the human species»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
| About:
Cities
| Keywords:
abyss, cities, human species, species, The Abyss
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