City Centre

A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart of a city.

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Famous quotes containing the words city and/or centre:

    “Arrive at New Orleans, a city of ships, steamers, flatboats, rafts, mud, fog, filth, stench, and a mixture of races and tongues. Cholera, “some.” [At] Planters’ Hotel. Mem:—Never get caught in a cheap tavern in a strange city.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)