Frank Lloyd Wright - City Quotes

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
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Frank Lloyd Wright

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The modern city is a place for banking and prostitution and very little else.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears — as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Frank Lloyd Wright

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.

Frank Lloyd Wright