| You can forget all your troubles,
forget all your cares / So go downtown, things'll be great when
you're / Downtown ... no finer place, for sure / Downtown ...
everything's waiting for you.
- Petula Clark, 'Downtown'
How about we do something more powerful, more meaningful? What
if we helped cities express themselves and share their voice?
My first thought was to ask the people of Pittsburgh
what they want to share with the world. That’s one way
to think about it. My next thought was to give them the tools,
show them how, and get the most authentic voice.
- Chris Brogan, How
Bloggers Can Work With Tourism Boards
Take a walk in the park.
- Conversation
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility
from there.
- Gary Snyder
What is the city but the people?
- William Shakespeare
Stand in the place where you live.
- R.E.M.
Visitors will know they have arrived in a real place
when they deal with clerks who do not wear uniforms, where they
find in shops well-crafted articles whose makers live nearby,
when they discover on restaurant menus dishes they could not
order anywhere else.
- Scott Russell Sanders, foreward, Civic Tourism
Look at that building.
- Poi
Dog Pondering
What attracts people most it would appear, is other people.
- William H. Whyte
A real place
conveys a sense of temporal depth, a sense that people have
been living and laboring here for a long time.
- Scott Russell Sanders, foreward, Civic Tourism
Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.
- Margaret Mead
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our
exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place
for the first time.
- TS Eliot
We are all members of one community and we have a common goal
... improving the economic and social conditions of our city
and making it a more desireable place in which to live.
- Robert West, San
Antonio Riverwalk
We built this city.
- Jefferson Starship
What does the ecotourist do in the city?
- Conversation
It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
- Popular saying
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
- Joni
Mitchell
The wilderness of the Sierra will disappear unless little pieces
of nonwilderness become intensely loved by lots of people In
other words, Harlem and Saint Louis and Iowa and Kansas and
the rest of the world where wilderness has been destroyed must
come to be loved by enough of us, or wilderness too is doomed.
- Wes Jackson, Becoming
Native to This Place
All this world is holy ground.
-
Bruce Cockburn, The Gift
The skin around every city looks the same -- miles of flat
neon spelling well-known names.
-
Bruce Cockburn
What's bad about sprawl is not its uniformity, but that it
is so uniformly bad.
- Jim Kunstler
It is fairly safe to say that the upper limit of what is desirable
for the size of a city is probably something of the order of
a half million inhabitants ... Above such a size nothing is
added to the virtue of the city.
- E.F.
Schumacher, Small
is Beautiful
Democracy, in any active sense, begins and ends in communities
small enough for their members to meet face to face.
- Lewis Mumford
Washington,
DC is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
- John F. Kennedy
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre
of each and every town or city.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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