metropolitan complexity Quotes

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.

London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

City diversity represents accident and chaos.

It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a wilderness purchased for strings of beads, but you find it impossible not to believe that it has always been a city; that if you dug beneath it you would find the ruins of another, older city, and then another and another.

It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected.