Top 5 City Streets Quotes

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

Jane Jacobs

Cities, Safe, City Streets

Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

Ray Stannard Baker

Cities, City Streets, Failing

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

Markus Zusak

Cities, People, City Streets

Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.472, Knopf Books for Young Readers

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

Stone Gossard

Thinking, Cities, City Streets

Active Living Network Interview, www.activeliving.org.