Quotes About Metropolis

Eyes mark the shape of the city.

Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.

Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

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In every murder is the tale of a city," he said.

I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I know.

Looked at from above, west London isn't so much a city as a forest with buildings.

the noise of Manhattan woke me as effectively as a jolt of caffeine. The blaring of horns and the thud of tires over a manhole cover invigorated me. Rapid-moving streams of pedestrians flanked both sides of the clogged street, while buildings stretched ambitiously toward the sky, keeping us in shadow even as the sun climbed.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

CIVILIZATION is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else.

Die Alarmsirenen waren die neuen Stimmen der Stadt.

I have this irrational fear of north London - it feels like proper London, scary and fast moving.

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.

Parece que hoy toca hablar de Madrid. Madrid es una gran ciudad, o por lo menos una ciudad grande.

The epistemological separation of colony from metropolis, the systemic occultation of the colonial labour on which imperial prosperity is based, results in a situation in which... the truth of metropolitan existence is not visible in the metropolis itself

As the Greeks have created the Olympus based upon their own image and resemblance, we have created Gotham City and Metropolis and all these galaxies so similar to the corporate world, manipulative, ruthless and well paid, that conceived them.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

One has not the alternative of speaking of London as a whole, for the simple reason that there is no such thing as the whole of it. It is immeasurable—embracing arms never meet. Rather it is a collection of many wholes, and of which of them is it most important to speak?

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.