When in Rome, do as Rome does.

The city is recruited from the country.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even...

There is no quiet place in the white man’s cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect’s wings. But perhaps it is because I am a...

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist — this is essential to the life...

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The...

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.