Quotes About Urban

The buildings appear to be glued together, mostly small houses and apartment blocks that looked nervous. There is murky snow spread out like carpet. There is concrete, empty hat-stand trees, and gray air.

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it had been empty.

When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.

Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road.

Evidentemente è questa la caratteristica della città contemporanea. Puoi aver voglia di lavorarci. Ma nessuno si aspetta seriamente che tu ci viva.

La città - è la città che dovrà guarirli, con lame di coltello e automobili, manganelli, colpi d'arma da fuoco. I cavi allentati e le pericolose costruzioni in muratura della città telecinetica.

London is full of short stories, long stories, epics, farces, sit-coms, soaps and squibs, walking round hand in hand.

And I still surfed on Manhattan static.

all paradox and enticing mystery, street-tough one moment, then lifted by a lyrical and poetic sensitivity

there were only three kinds of people in this city – security guards, people who need security guards, and thieves.

He began to look wiser than he really was. Like a fisherman in a city. With sea-secrets in him

Like cities. Fizzy, effervescent, simulating the illusion of life while the planet they had plundered died around them.

stilts, the ground floors given over to parking. It's a good idea in this car-maddened city

well as street vendors crying their wares. The mob had

Even when they were rushing, and in Moscow there's always a kind of rush, people lack the desperation of New York.

There are cities in which to spend a fortune and cities in which to make one; only in the rare great city can one accomplish both.

it gave me a little plastic book with four fold-outs, maps of the city's transit system. When I wanted to go somewhere, I touched the silver-printed name - street, level, square - and instantly on the map a circuit of all the necessary connections lit up. I could also travel by gleeder. Or by rast. Or - finally - on foot; therefore, four maps

Above the podium stood a decorated board showing the agenda for the day. The first item of business was the world urban crisis, the second—the ecology crisis, the third—the air pollution crisis, the fourth—the energy crisis, the fifth—the food crisis. Then adjournment.

The West Side had become a land where people lived in layers. It was a land of prosperous immigrants. It was a place where people rented, rather than owned

Schönerer, he related in Mein Kampf how much he had learned during his years in Vienna from watching the mayor's skill in flattering the urban proletariat, and in understanding that the less propaganda is based on intellectual appeals and reason, and the more on "the emotions of the masses, the more effective it will be.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.

Sobel was Jewish, urban, with a commission from the National Guard. Hester had started as a private, then earned his commission from Officer Candidate's School (OCS). Most

and see a fire burning in town.