Quotes About Metropolis

El éxtasis del habitante metropolitano no consiste tanto en un romance a primera vista como en uno a "última vista", por así decirlo; se trata de un adiós definitivo, coincidente en los versos con el momento encantador.

Supermodernism. the fact that we don't build places just to live in anymore. We build places to go through. To wait in. To be transient [. . .] Supermodern spaces. Places to go through. And now look at this bloody city [Los Angeles]. Two hundred thousand fucking miles of road. Not even a city. A dozen towns stitched together by motorways.

Seuls deux types de personnes vivent dans la métropole : les super-héros ratés et les vieux messieurs qui vivent dans l'appartement du dessus.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

the Norwegians of Chicago were widely regarded as a frugal, industrious, and upstanding people, who enhanced the moral character of the metropolis.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan — that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

Between 1801 and 1901, the population of London soared from one million to over six million.

New York's alright, if you want to freeze to death.

The whole city was a compass. How could anyone ever have gotten so hopelessly lost here?

Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.

I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds to fighting terrorism than any other municipality.

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

I can't imagine finding success and then moving to a building in Manhattan with 300 strangers, like a bunch of little ants going home at night.

The face of London was now indeed strangely altered:

The small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison.

Privacy, self-reliance, choice -- all these can and must remina core American values. Yet so too must we remember that other core American value, the value of community. And we must redefine community more broadly to include not just our street or our tract, but our town, our metropolis, our region.

Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis.

There was such noise. It came without remorse. There were always people everywhere. New Crobuzon.

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

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

The city was here before the freeway system, no doubt, but it no looks as though the metropolis was built around this arterial network. It is the same with American reality. It was there before the screen was invented, but everything about the way it is today suggests hit was invented with the screen in mind.

He liked city walking. He didn't want to have to go to that place called countryside to take a walk. He wanted to stuff his hands in his pockets, set his internal compass vaguely east or south and wander till he was tired enough to get the bus home.

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.