Quotes About Urban

The wealthiest cities of the world will follow Venice's lead and simply try to engineer their way around the problem. The poorest cities will follow New Orleans' lead—at least so far—and just move to other nearby cities. Either way the poplation stays urban.

Jane Jacobs observed many years ago that one of the paradoxical effects of metropolitan life is that huge cities create environments where small niches can flourish. A store selling nothing but buttons most likely won't be able to find a market in a town of 50,000 people, but in New York City, there's an entire button-store district.

The greatest risk of a deliberately planned urban epidemic is not that we won't have a vaccine, it's that we won't recognize the outbreak until it's too late for the vaccine to stop the spread of disease.

Formal city parks have a longevity to them that can exceed that of castles or cemeteries or forts.

They weren't off on separate islands, teaching creative writing seminars or doing design reviews. That physical proximity made the space rich with exaptation: the literary stream of consciousness influencing the dizzying new perspectives of cubism; the futurist embrace of technological speed in poetry shaping new patterns of urban planning.

A metropolis fifty times bigger than a town was 130 times more innovative.

As we hurry along the sidewalk, we have the absurd sensation that we have entered still another department, composed of ingeniously lifelike streets with artful shadows and reflections--that our destinations lie in a far corner of the same department--that we are condemned to hurry forever through these artificial halls, bright with late afternoon light, in search of the way out.

As Europe became more urban, cosmopolitan, commercial, industrialized, and secular, it got safer and safer.

The urban planner Donald Sean has argued that an 'urban blight' metaphor led planners to treat crowded neighbourhoods as if they were diseased plants, which had to be extirpated to prevent the spread of rot. The result was the disastrous urban renewal projects the 1960s.

I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!

I LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

I love New York. But the energy is so intense

I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it's also extremely hectic. I don't think I would cope with that.

Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.

I love Chicago. I know Chicago. And Chicago is a great city. It can be a great city. It can't be a great city if people are shot walking down the street for a loaf of bread.

Hij had geprofiteerd van het gemak waarmee je in de grote stad van je 'persoonlijkheid' een goed verhaal kan maken, met kop en staart en een plot die wat te raden overlaat. Identiteit was iets om af te huren, een soort mentale smoking.

The news was its usual discouraging self—people in Chicago can't help but shoot at each other, and we only hear about the ones who didn't miss.

Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.

A veces creía que cada calle de Barcelona iba asociada a un recuerdo.

Los monumentos, hay que admitirlo, son piedras que cuestan una fortuna y que se olvidarían si no fuera porque estorban el tránsito.