Community Gathering Places Quotes

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.

A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.

I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

I don't want to live in a world without the diner and the coffee shop and the mom and pop places, the ethnic restaurants.