cities

“A metropolitan economy, if it is working well, is constantly transforming many poor people into middle-class people.”
“There must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to the natural proprietors of the street.”
“There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them—not buildings—that we must fit our plans.”
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”