Quotes About Urban

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

You forget things like how accessible the city is, I bought a bike - I haven't had a bike in twenty years.

Some white Milwakeeans still referred to the North side as 'the cire', as they did in the 1960s, and if they ventured into it, they saw street after street of sagging duplexes, fading murals, twenty-four hour daycares, and corner stores with 'WIC Accepted Here' signs.

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

In Los Angeles, sometimes it's hard to find a magazine stand, let alone one that has the magazine that you want. So I find that the longer I live in L.A., the more digitally I consume.

People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.

I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.

New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it's so compressed - if you walk around, you just find things.

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.

I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.

I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change.

You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long? Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.

Unless you were high up in a building or happened to glimpse it at the end of one of the big avenues going east-west, all you knew of the sunset was a darkening in the air. No wonder people in New York were so unbalanced. They were totally untouched by the rhythms of nature. You were only aware of nature when something extreme happened, like a snowstorm or heatwave.