Quotes About Urban

I love Toronto, It's the best city.

It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.

When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

I love seeing Houston. Houston has a great style and energy.

I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.

I love New York. You're never alone, but you're always on your own.

Why did New York feel more like home to me than home did? I'd heard of love at first sight, but I didn't know it could happen with a whole city.

After moving to New York, I started to love vintage shopping.

I love the water; it inspires me, even if it is dirty London water that I look at.

I love this city [Tel Aviv]!

By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.

According to Time Out magazine, at any given moment there are 600,000 people on the Underground, making it both a larger and more interesting place than Oslo.

I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I know.

On average the total walking of an American these days--that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls--adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day. That's ridiculous.

Here are instructions for being a pigeon: (1) Walk around aimlessly for a while, pecking at cigarette butts and other inappropriate items. (2) Take fright at someone walking along the platform and fly off to a girder. (3) Have a shit. (4) Repeat.

It was like being in the midst of an ugly-building competition. For the better part of a decade architects had been arriving in the area and saying, "You think that's bad? Wait'll you see what I can do!

In nearly every year for at least 250 years, deaths outnumbered births in London.

beyond a network of pedestrian tunnels and over a large open space shared by parking lots and those strange new-town trees that never seem to grow.

In my experience, the last people you want trying to solve any problem, but especially those involving roads, are highway engineers. They operate from the principle that while no traffic problem can ever truly be solved, it can be spread over a much larger area.

Looked at from above, west London isn't so much a city as a forest with buildings.

Yet in clean Hong Kong asthma rates are 15 percent, while in heavily polluted Guangzhou they are just 3 percent, exactly the opposite of what one would expect.

As late as the 1930s, almost half of London streets were still lit by gas.

In nearly every year for at least 250 years, deaths outnumbered births in London. Only the steady influx of ambitious provincials and Protestant refugees from the Continent kept the population growing—and grow it did, from fifty thousand in 1500 to four times that number by century's end.

those befuddling networks of pedestrian subways that compel you to surface every few minutes like a gopher to see where you are.