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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. (Piven Jeremy)
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. (Piven Jeremy)
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. (Piven Jeremy)
Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake. (Piven Jeremy)
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. (Piven Jeremy)
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. (Piven Jeremy)
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. (Piven Jeremy)
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. (Piven Jeremy)
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. (Piven Jeremy)
Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris] (Piven Jeremy)
A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. (Piven Jeremy)
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. (Piven Jeremy)
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view. (Piven Jeremy)
What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city. (Piven Jeremy)
Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.] (Piven Jeremy)
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. (Piven Jeremy)
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home. (Piven Jeremy)
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. (Piven Jeremy)
The city is recruited from the country. (Piven Jeremy)
The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch. (Piven Jeremy)
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. (Piven Jeremy)
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