Quotes About Urban

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn is definitely the only place to live in the New York area. I love Brooklyn. Go Brooklyn!

New York is one of my favorite places in the world, Brooklyn especially.

It's hard to compete with everything that Brooklyn has to offer as a city.

It's a brotherhood coming from the intercity of Los Angeles.

I like being in my New York bubble. It's the best bubble!

I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

I'm scared of high buildings.

I'm from New York. You walk by, you bump somebody and they give you a look. There's always an attitude.

I like to walk when I can. Otherwise, it's the bus - while we still have them.

It is clear to me that when London has expanded successfully in the past, there has always been a plan.

The roads in Boston suck. Highways included. There are potholes and bumps all over the place. It's not a fun place to drive.

When I first got here, I thought L.A. sucked. I hated it. I had this pretentious Manhattan thing. But now I've made such a life here, and I'm so happy here. They're just really different places. I can't really compare them because there's great things about both of them.

A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.

AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.

Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.

I grew up in Queens, which is the most diverse borough: the rich and the poor and homeless and people of every sexual orientation and gender and age group. Everyone is saying we live in this bubble, and there's some truth to that. But I do not think it is healthy to all of a sudden invalidate the way we live in New York.

I was living in my lovely little two-bedroom flat in north London... and suddenly, I couldn't just walk down the street and buy a pint of milk.

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.

We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.

I have this whole section in my oyster book where I talk about how New Yorkers have gotten divorced from the sea and completely forget that they live by the sea, and I suggest that this happened when they lost their oysters.

I'm originally from New York, and my style follows suit. Since I've lived in L.A., though, I feel like I've become a lot more casual.

I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.