A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.
Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
Cities might become biological entities, walls hung with curtains of algae that glow at night and sequester carbon, and floors made from tweaked cellular material that strengthens like bones as we walk on it.
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.
Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.