Quotes About Urban

I took a walk from Friedrichstrasse Station. That appears to be the train station from which I left in 1983 and in 1988. Then, it was a threatening place, with policemen carrying machine guns and parading around with dogs. Today I walked out to a commercial paradise of stores and of—policemen with machine guns and German shepherds. In fact, there were more police now than then.

The woman hangs from the 13th floor window crying for the lost beauty of her own life. She sees the sun falling west over the grey plane of Chicago. She thinks she remembers listening to her own life break loose, as she falls from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago, or as she climbs back up to claim herself again.

The city was poisoned with the venom of small fundamentalisms, and the venom ran beneath us, like dirty water in the sewers.

Yeh shehar ki aawargi ki zindagi ki kashmakash insaan nafrat mein ji kar mohbhatt se mar jaata hain

Across the intersection he could see the crumbling blue-green facade of the Palace Amusements building, the grinning ten-foot-high face on its north wall smiling out on empty streets and vacant lots. The arcade entrances were covered with plywood; broken neon tubing hung from the walls. He thought of the hours he had spent there as a kid, playing pinball, firing the real .22s in the shooting gallery, riding the bumper cars. It hurt to look at it now.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society…. A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

I could hear it from far away, that sound which only very big cities can produce: a sound consisting of all sounds rolled into one: the hum of voices and the cries of animals, bells ringing and the chink of coins, children's laughter and hammers beating metal, knives and forks clattering and a thousand doors slamming - the grandiose sound of life, of birth and death, itself.

walk on the inside away from the curb / no public displays of affection / when you call, let the phone ring twice / hang up and then dial again

The wonderful thing about this city is when you get tired you can always lean against it.

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

May you fall from the top of the Chrysler Building and may people lean out their windows and hit you on the head with a baseball bat as you go by.

In the streets you saw people frozen in their cars, suffocated to death.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Time and Fortune, a columnist wrote, "We wonder if there will ever be any building again." Sixty-four percent of the city's construction workers were unemployed.

both sides by terraces of small two-story

La gente de la ciudad es tan desconfiada... pero supongo que es normal

When you got no wheels you're no place in L. A.

Sebbene lo Stato si ostini a dare un nome alle strade, la gente stabilisce i propri punti di riferimento in maniera del tutto autonoma. Una chiesa, una casa abbandonata, un parco, un edificio pubblico, uno stadio, un cimitero: qualunque cosa può andare bene. Ognuno insomma finisce per inventarsi una sua personale mappa urbana.

Some cities have what I call a piñata problem: there is great wealth, but it's hanging from a high place, far away from the city commons. There are mansions on the outskirts of town filled with famous citizens, high-paid executives, and even a scattering of multinational CEOs. Meanwhile, the downtown could desperately use a capital influx but does not get one despite the opulence that encircles it.

Meanwhile, every corner of this city is laced with memories of us together.

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

The character of the older flats battling against the utilitarian nature of the contemporary ones.