Quotes About Urban

Somewhere in the wider world kids in their teens loitered in shop doorways late at night, smoked a pooled ten gaspers and crammed their mouths with pay-by-weight sweets. They engaged in friendly bouts of scuffling and sat on damp kerbs and felt estranged.

As she sat in the House Committee anteroom waiting to testify, she looked out the window and was startled by the contrast between Capitol Hill's marble government buildings, surrounded by manicured grounds, and the rows of tumbledown houses occupied by the city's Negro population. The children were barefoot and dressed in rags. "They all looked rachitic and most seemed undernourished. All they had to play with was junk they found in the street.

Die Alarmsirenen waren die neuen Stimmen der Stadt.

Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won't help to call "I need a light" / You're in Karachi now / Oh, oh you're in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / You're in Karachi now

I didn't tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes to find a splinter of glass that looked like unmelting ice, beautiful in its defiance of the sun.

All around us, Karachi kept moving

London, London, London town, You can toughen up or get thrown around.

When you're in the city, all you see is people. It gets more competitive, people become more introverted.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

Building channels for people to believe that the city sees them and hears them and is willing to invest, is going to be critically important, and we have to start that right away.

I want to make Seoul more attractive. I want to make it a good investment.

Chicago's a flyover city. I don't think we should try to change that. But it would be really cool if we had a little more opportunity for investors to come hang out.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

When we talk about big issues like climate justice, of course that involves global and statewide implications. But it's also how we double our street-tree canopy to clean the air. It's converting to electric school buses. All of these issues at the city level start from the day-to-day impacts on people's lives.

I just like to walk around New York, just put my iPod on and walk around.

I have this irrational fear of north London - it feels like proper London, scary and fast moving.

The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.

There is a dark side to being single in a great big city like New York. There's this sense of isolation and I think you can get fairly desperate.

The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.

For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

When I went to New York, I was exposed to things I definitely wasn't exposed to in South Jersey and Pitman.

Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.

Construction in Jerusalem cannot be halted.