... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
Nelson AlgrenTag: heart chicago divided urban
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...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
Nelson AlgrenTag: chicago urban blood-red cities neon steel wilderness
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A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough to stay in the city.
S.J. PerelmanTag: urban cities farm farming farms rural
The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.
Betty SmithIn their simplicity and directness [neon signage is] a kind of urban iconography with which we can identify on many levels. — Rudi Stern
Philip Di LemmeTag: urban neon iconography
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 ChappellTag: design urban cities parks
Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.
Jane JacobsTag: urban cities urban-planning city-planning
Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when one awakens with a start after extreme anxiety.' But a start against whom? Who has stuffed us to the point of somnolence?
Tom McDonoughTag: urban city urbanism situationist 156
Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.
Roman PayneTag: love travel personalities glory enmity urban cities voyage city rejection travelling roman-payne traveler cities-and-countries novel-quote
This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive and feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad.
Roman PayneTag: love soul heart travel devotion fortune luck urban voyage affections roman-payne cities-and-countries fickle
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