In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation that we all experience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.
We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.
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.
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening.
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.
Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.