Quotes About Urban

Gentrification is a form of immigration, though almost nobody calls it that.

The key for hipsters is that they usually try really hard, but the important thing is they want to come across like they don't try. To make it look effortless. I don't mind. It really fits New York, the hipster look.

My studio's passion is improving the public experience of cities for everyone.

You can't live in the Bronx and survive on just $80,000 or so of income, if you're married and you have three kids at home.

An increase in bicycle ridership brings an increased need for measures to ensure the safety of cyclists.

Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners.

Atlanta is an incredibly cool city.

Milano e' una citta' che usiamo molto ma vediamo poco.

Anima is walking along the promenade of the waterway that bisects her city, a few early morning barges cruise slowly by

London that evening

her body will free-up itself from the up-tightness of city life and she's going to walk with more lyricalness

It's only when you drive out of London that you get the sense that most of this country is made up of countryside: wide-open fields and a sky uninterrupted by buildings.

All the young tech workers were still in their tech boxes or on their tech commuter buses with faces fixed to their screens doing their tech jobs. My catch-all phrase for whatever it was they did was Petting the Glass. Everywhere I looked nowadays people were Petting the Glass.

the singular cry of the wild: hey! get your stroller off my sidewalk!

God shined down his light on our fair city and conferred an Apple Store upon us. Did I really have any reason to complain?

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky.

But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the

But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the water.

The Bodhi Tree Grows in L.A.

Our 'Hooligans' go from bad to worse. They are an ugly growth on the body politic, and the worse circumstance is that they multiply, and that School Boards and prisons, police magistrates and philanthropists, do not seem to ameliorate them. Other great cities may throw off elements more perilous to the State. Nevertheless the 'Hooligan' is a hideous excrescence on our civilization. The Times [London], October 30, 1890

To be a New Yorker is to be away from the city and feel like you are missing something

I once said to someone that one doesn't come to New York for beauty. I said that's what Paris, or Iceland is for. [...] I didn't know what the hell I was talking about. [...] The thing is, beauty comes in unbeautfiul ways here.

When the peak temperature in leafy suburbs can be lower by as much as fifteen degrees, "landscape is a predictor for mobidity in heatwaves," in the words of one study, which found that African Americans were "52% more likely than white people to live in areas of unnatural 'heat risk-related land cover.'" Imagine what it's like in a refugee camp, or a prison. It's hell, is what it is.