CITIES

“I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man.”

—THOMAS JEFFERSON

“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.”

—THOMAS JEFFERSON

“I’m not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me.”

—BARACK OBAMA