"The city had certainly inspired the group and their music," Mr. Wenders said.

Perhaps the mayor is right, that this city "inspires courageous action."

Few cities have inspired better epigrammatic praise than San Francisco.

She explains how the city inspires her and picks her highlights.

There must be a good reason why certain cities, certain places, inspire such loathing and dread.

Could any other American city have inspired a Richard Nickel?

A truly great city inspires truly great dreams, even during the days when all else seems lost.

We're trying to capture, and quantify, the emotions this city inspires.

But pretty good cities inspire them, too.

The city still inspires popular culture and every once in a while someone claims to have found it.