Quotes About Urban

for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Talvez o facto de viver numa grande cidade como Londres me levasse a desconfiar de estranhos, hábito que queria perder.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban nights are like the night there. I have looked down across the city from high windows. It is then that the great buildings lose reality and take on their magical powers. They are immaterial; that is to say, one sees but the lighted windows. Squares after squares of flame, set and cut into the Aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

She loved this city. She just didn't like it much.

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New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets lost, but I recognise that New York is the world's greatest lie.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

Depression ended, and factory output more than doubled during the 1930s. Getúlio realized that, by co-opting the new urban working classes, he could gain a powerful, up-and-coming ally and stoke the engine of economic growth.

nosotros viviendo una realidad de película: desquitándoles por un lado a los impuestos, por el otro a las balas perdidas de un atraco o a la furia de un chofer.

The luxury of skyscrapers is that they allow human beings to rise above themselves

La experiencia común, en los siglos precedentes, era la sorpresa de un extranjero en la ciudad: un rostro desconocido. ¿De dónde viene, qué viene a hacer aquí? Pero hoy en día el anonimato es la norma. Lo sorprendente es reconocer a alguien.

Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Mandelion spread itself like a butterfly of brick and slate.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

The animal is the city where I live. In the black fur the ground breathes.

(on nyc)...what's to love? the cold? the dirt? the crime?

What Berlin had created was a hybrid pop song. It had a great hook and a memorable title, and it was easy to sing. It also melded a slight melancholy, which Berlin reckoned he had learned from 'Slavonic and Semitic folk tunes', with the vogueish ragtime style, which is what gave it a subtle urban edge (he later wrote an essay called 'Song and Sorrow Are Playmates').

Bezos even wondered aloud whether Amazon could hire college students on every block in Manhattan and get them to store popular products in their apartments and deliver them on bicycles.

Our cities are going to be given back to us. Our time is going to be given back to us. And there's going to be a very, very different world in terms of how we experience our cities. We are just getting started.

Gavin Chambers was at the window of his office high-rise in midtown, looking down at the "protestors"—a ragtag group of aging grunge-ola that probably numbered no more than twenty—mulling inside the building's courtyard