Quotes About Urban

Uber riders are the most affluent, influential people in their cities.

I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure bank in Chicago. I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors.

My approach to housing is to treat it as an essential part of our communities, just like roads, waterlines or any other piece of infrastructure.

The problem of the Panthers is that they scared people. The music of N.W.A didn't scare people; it taught people what it was like to grow up in our inner cities.

Very often the best chance for a child in an inner city to acquire an excellent start in education is the church school.

I'm an inner city man, born and bred.

Too many of our children are being left behind, especially in our inner city schools.

As kids, we all wanted a bike. But a lot of people don't have that opportunity, especially in the inner city.

I'm from the inner city of Buffalo.

The music I make is for the inner city.

I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.

It's incredible that the layout of the centre of Chester, for instance, is still essentially that of the original Roman fort.

I've now spent almost a full year of the last two years of my life in London, and I still have to think really, really hard before I cross the street. There are too many instincts fighting each other, and I don't want to die.

I'm what they call an intelligent hoodlum.

Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.

It's difficult to be truly serious when you're in a city that can't even put up a skyscraper for fear the earth will start up one day and bring the whole thing down around everyone's ears.

New York has a kind of push," he argues further. "I know. You never have time to think. It's one of its charms." "Yeah, it is.

there was no point in owning anything in L.A. . . . in this she had a curious premonition or grasp of 'place.

I did not live in the forests. I lived in the concrete city where I could not see the sky or sunset or stars. I moved at the pace of engines and it was faster than my own breath. I became a stranger to myself and to the rhythms of the Earth.

Most taxi drivers won't bring folks to our street They say they could get shot or killed So I wonder what that makes me A person who is bulletproof or already dead

Boa parte dos taxistas não trazem gente pra nossa rua Falam que podem levar tiro ou acabar morrendo Aí fico pensando nesse caso o que é que eu sou Uma pessoa à prova de balas ou alguém que já morreu.