- “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.” – Aristotle
- “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” – Jane Jacobs
- “The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.” – Desmond Morris
- “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” – John Updike
- “Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler.” – Roman Payne
- “Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler.” – Roman Payne
- “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” – Jane Jacobs
- “Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler.” – Roman Payne
- “Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking.” – Jane Jacobs
- “There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.” – Simone de Beauvoir
- “Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.” – Angela Carter
- “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.” – Italo Calvino
- “Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.” – John Berger
- “A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.” – Herb Caen
- “A city is not just a place, but a living entity created by people who inhabit it.” – Daniel Kemmis
- “The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.” – Desmond Morris
- “The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.” – Desmond Morris
- “A city is a poem—a poem that expresses itself by myriad subtractions and subversions, whose rules are concealed in its very essence, and whose implacable forms have been the delight and terror of human beings for centuries.” – Jonathan Raban
- “A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.” – Aristotle