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A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.

Cities must be fun.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

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.