“A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.”— Elizabeth Hardwick
“The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.”— Jane Jacobs
“Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.”— Jane Jacobs
“The street-folk are a distinct race—a nomadic race—in the midst of a civilized community.”— Henry Mayhew
“We want a ground to which people may easily go after their day's work is done, and where they may stroll for an hour, seeing, hearing, and feeling nothing of the bustle and jar of the streets.”— Frederick Law Olmsted
“In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in a town, you can be alone with yourself.”— Jonathan Raban
“The city asks for more soul, for more breath, for a heart that is not squeezed by anguish and fear.”— Dionigi Tettamanzi