Flier showing the Golden Gate Bridge over the Oakland Bay in San Francisco, California (United States)

 

"A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress."

Joseph Strauss

Drawing of the Transporter Bridge over the Old Port of Marseille (France)

Marseille c'est la plage, le foot, la gratte en pleine chaleur
J'vois les gadjis zoner et faire des béquilles en Fazer
Les flics te font danser le moonwalk à coup d'taser
On s'ennuie toute la nuit on parle, on tourne jusqu'à pas d'heure
Marseille c'est la plage, le foot, la gratte en pleine chaleur
J'vois les gadjis zoner et faire des béquilles en Fazer
Les flics te font danser le moonwalk à coup d'taser
On s'ennuie toute la nuit on parle, on tourne jusqu'à pas d'heure

Lyrics from Marseille c'est...

Soprano

Flyer depicting the Blackfriars Bridge over the River Thames in London (United Kingdom)

I'm wandering round and round, nowhere to go
I'm lonely in London and London is lonely so
I cross the streets without fear
Everybody keeps the way clear
I know, I know no one here to say hello
I know they keep the way clear
I am lonely in London without fear
I'm wandering round and round here nowhere to go

Beginning of London, London

Song by Caetano Veloso

Flyer with drawing of the London Tower Bridge on the Thames River (United Kingdom)

London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared, and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look to us
Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river

 London Calling Lyrics
The Clash

Flier depicting the Tower Bridge over the Thames River in London (United Kingdom)

I met my girl at Woolwich Pier

Beneath the big cranes standing

And oh, the love I felt for her

It passed all understanding

Took her sailing on the river

Flow sweet river, flow

London town was mine to give her

Sweet Thames flow softly

Made the Thames into a crown

Flow sweet river, flow

Made a brooch of Silver town

Sweet Thames flow softly 

Sweet Thames Flow Softly

Traditional english song

Brooklyn Bridge over the East River in New York (United States)

...Again the traffic lights that skim thy swift

Unfractioned idiom, immaculate sigh of stars,

Beading thy path--condense eternity:

And we have seen night lifted in thine arms

Under thy shadow by the piers I waited;

Only in darkness is thy shadow clear.

lready snow submerges an iron year.

The City's fiery parcels all undone,

. .

O Sleepless as the river under thee,

Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod,

Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend

And of the curveship lend a myth to God.

Hart Crane

Flyer showing a drawing of Stone Bridge over the Ebro River in Zaragoza (Spain)

Todo su largo camino

va el Ebro cantando jotas:

a la Virgen del Pilar,

a España y a Zaragoza.

Cuando cruzo la ribera

yo no se lo que me pasa,

que se me vuela un suspiro

y una jota se me escapa.

Años y años lleva el Ebro

cortejando a Zaragoza,

y cuanto más la conoce,

más y más se le enamora.

Traditional Song from Zaragoza

Patriarshy Bridge over the Moskva River in Moscow (Russia)

"Moscow did not know what to attach herself to, whom to go and see, in order to live happily and normally. There was no joy for her in houses, she found no peace in the warmth of stoves or the light of table-lamps. She loved the fire that came from logs in stoves, and she loved electricity, but she loved them as though she herself was not a human being but that very same fire or electricity, the excitation of a force that brings about peace and happiness on earth."

From the novel Happy Moscow

Andrei Platonov