The Human City Quotes

“I believe that people and places form each other . . . the touch of one returning the touch of the other. What we seek, I think, is tenderness in this encounter, but that goes both ways, too. I believe that places acquire their sacredness through this giving and taking. And with that ever-returning touch, we acquire something sacred from the place where we live. What we acquire, of course, is a home.120”
― Joel Kotkin, The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us