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urban
«Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
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aims, comic, comic strip, Comic strips, commercial, common denominator, cultural, denominator, denominators, incidence, machines, mannerism, mannerisms, mass media, movie set, opera, Pre, pulp, scheduled, scheme, soap, soap opera, soap operas, urban
«Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
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aspiration, continual, demography, describe, locate, located, locates, locating, monograph, myth, nightmare, sociology, The Hard, urban
«The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
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ant, cave, cave in, communal, framework, heap, In the City, in turn, simpler, The City, urban, work of art
«PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ancestor, arboreal, bladder, bladders, cigarette, descendant, pedigree, pedigrees, swim bladder, urban
«Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door»
«The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
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aggressive, carapace, protective, shell, suburban, The Car, urban
«Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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Aestheticism, contemporary, creators, homosexual, homosexuals, ironies, irony, Jewish, Jews, minorities, moral force, outstanding, Pioneering, pioneers, sensibilities, sensibility, seriousness, truest, Two Cultures, urban