Places
- The City of London, the historic core of London and (by metonymy) the British financial services sector
- The City (mall), now The Outlets at Orange, a shopping center in California
- The City is a slang term for the city of San Francisco, California
- The City is a slang term for Manhattan, especially among those who live in the New York City Metropolitan Area.
- The City (Urbe) is used in classical Roman texts to refer to Rome, e.g. ab urbe condita.
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“A part, a large part, of travelling is an engagement of the ego v. the world.... The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.”
—Sybille Bedford (b. 1911)
“We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it—benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their “good” subjects and punishment to their “bad” ones, who are amused at the “cleverness” of children and annoyed by their “stupidities.””
—Viola Spolin (b. 1911)