When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount
Zion, on the sides of the north, the read more

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount
Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.

Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.

In the busy haunts of men.

In the busy haunts of men.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life read more

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford

That is the way to lay the city flat,
To bring the roof to the foundation,
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That is the way to lay the city flat,
To bring the roof to the foundation,
And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,
In heaps and piles of ruin.

Towered cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men.

Towered cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.