Quotes About Urban

The four of them stared at me. Half an hour ago we were strangers and I was beating the crap out of them; now I was supposed to lead them on an urban infiltration mission against unknown odds and, very likely, plague-carrying walking corpses.

with his shorts dragged down and his jacket rucked up, he was showing more crack than an inner-city coke dealer.

Lockwood led the way down a side street, rapier glinting beneath a long, heavy overcoat that swung stylishly behind him. George and I trotted alongside.

Cities get me down. Almost as if I am underground. London is particularly bad. Cold, grey, heavy with odours and rain. It makes me long for the south. For the deserts and the blank blue sky.

May my enemies live here [London] in summer!

People brush past us on the street in endless waves, leaving somewhere, headed somewhere else, laughing, smoking, speaking into cell phones, completely oblivious to the holocaust of an entire world casually imploding in their midst.

Street floods are a regular nuisance in some low-lying areas of Queens like Hamilton Beach. Residents there have grown accustomed to swans and fish swimming in knee-high water in the middle of the road when the moon is full.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

La soledad más absoluta se encuentra en medio de las multitudes más inmensas

Creemos que hoy más que nunca es peligroso vivir en un lugar pequeño como lo es Teziutlán, pues nuevas

Y, mirando hacia los rascacielos, se quedó esperando a recibir sensaciones de entusiasmo, de emoción, de plenitud, de felicidad. Sin embargo, la espera se reveló únicamente como una espera, sin más. Una espera plana, sin sobresaltos, sin entusiasmo alguno. Cuanto más miraba a los rascacielos en busca de cierta intensidad, más evidente se hacía que no iba a llegarle sensación especial alguna.

The question is: why can't parking lots be modest paradises?

In 1933 nearly 70 percent of Germany's Jews worked in business and commerce; over 30 percent lived in the city of Berlin alone; and 70 percent lived in cities with a population of over 100,000 inhabitants.

The Philadelphia studies suggest that place-based interventions are far more likely to succeed than people-based projects.

In New Orleans, the Lafitte Greenway is a bicycle and pedestrian trail that's designed to connect people and neighborhoods that might otherwise remain divided.

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.

The farmer was and remains the stumbling block to socialist experiments everywhere. Since he raises his own food and tends to live in his own house, he is less "controllable" than say, the urban dweller.

Stay away from Twolegplace!!!!

Thunderpaths

One place suits on person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.

En este borde, entre una Buenos Aires que cree recordar y la ciudad que encuentra en 1921, dibuja un espacio literario que funda su primera gran invención: el criollismo urbano de vanguardia.

Historians estimate that up to half of nineteenth-century city residents were either boarding or maintaining a boardinghouse.2 Single

I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?

good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.