Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
In 'Palaces for the People,' Eric Klinenberg offers a new perspective on what people and places have to do with each other, by looking at the social side of our physical spaces.
Staten Island is segregated, but it's also - I don't know. It's, like, it's not - it's not unprogressive.
My first decade of living in a metropolis was like, I was a people watcher. It meant the world to me to talk to strangers. I got excited about the fifth time I'd see the same person in the same bodega. I loved getting to know a certain clerk or barista. It took on a whole big meaning for me because of that atomization that suburban people do start to feel.
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.
He studied cities as women study their reflections.
The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.
They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
