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Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring.

I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.

Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from.

Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most of us care to imagine. Cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable.

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.