6 quotes
Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
The Culture of Cities (1938)
Nothing is permanent: certainly not the frozen images of barbarous power with which fascism now confronts us.
The Culture of Cities (1938)
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
The Culture of Cities (1938)
Today our world faces a crisis: a crisis which, if its consequences are as grave as now seems, may not fully be resolved for another century.
The Culture of Cities (1938)
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
The Culture of Cities (1938)
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.
The Culture of Cities (1938)