Aldous Huxley Quotes

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

In 2007, the majority of the world’s population – over 3 billion of us – will live in urban areas for the first time in history.

The United States was born in the country and has moved to the city.

I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like.

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have absolutely lost their own center. They think having ten cars and a big bridge is the way to happiness. It's not.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda.

More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.