“Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.”

Source: 1960-70's, Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967, p. 94

Source: White Noise

Source: Anthem

Source: The Time Keeper

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter VIII, Sec. 17
Context: With the present importance of the city [of Rome] and the unlimited numbers of its population, it is necessary to increase the number of dwelling-places indefinitely. Consequently, as the ground floors could not admit of so great a number living in the city, the nature of the case has made it necessary to find relief by making the buildings high. In these tall piles reared with piers of stone, walls of burnt brick, and partitions of rubble work, and provided with floor after floor, the upper stories can be partitioned off into rooms to very great advantage. The accommodations within the city walls being thus multiplied as a result of the many floors high in the air, the Roman people easily find excellent places in which to live.

Greenwich Village as It Is, in Pearson’s Magazine (October 1916)

Cultural Conservatism and the Religious Right https://www.c-span.org/video/?c3858491/phyllis-schlafly, C-SPAN.org (April 4, 2012)

Implosion Magazine, No. 96, p. 4. (Callum Coats: Energy Evolution (2000))
Implosion Magazine

"I Want to Live in a City Where..." (2006)
Variant: I want to live in a city where half the people in charge are women.