City on the Verge Quotes

“Yet historical roots influence contemporary behavior and decisions for a city just as childhood experiences remain crucial to adult attitudes for an individual.”
― Mark Pendergrast, City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future

“I dreamed big,” she recalled. “Why not?”
― Mark Pendergrast, City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future

“Americans sense that something is wrong with the places where we live and work and go about our daily business,” wrote social critic James Howard Kunstler in 1996. “We drive up and down the gruesome, tragic suburban boulevards of commerce, and we’re overwhelmed at the fantastic, awesome, stupefying ugliness of absolutely everything in sight… as though the whole thing had been designed by some diabolical force bent on making human beings miserable.”
― Mark Pendergrast, City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future