Dream Cities Quotes

“It is a curious phenomenon: as we advance, we reach backward in time.”
― Wade Graham, Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

“cities feel disjointed and complex—they can be read as layers recording change over time as traces,”
― Wade Graham, Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

“Conventional histories of architecture talk about style, and the uniqueness of buildings as though they are art objects, like paintings, independent of their context. But cities are all context, made up not simply of buildings but of assemblies of forms and the spaces and relationships between them, and between this built environment and us.”
― Wade Graham, Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World