Quotes About Urban

cities are built to kill people

I can hear cars on the freeway, it's like a distant sea sludged with people while over my other shoulder, far over on 7th street near Western is the hospital, that house of agony— sheets and bedpans and arms and heads and expirations; everything is so sweetly awful, so continuously and sweetly awful: the art of consummation: life eating life…

I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.

Shanghai, with an average altitude of thirteen feet, is among the many Asian cities vulnerable to rising waters.

the stacks keeps you on your toes. Besides which, there are rumours of ape-men living down here; I don't know how the rumours got started, but this place is more than somewhat creepy when you're on your own late at night.

and look down the glowing store front of a 24 hr bodega. I am not overly concerned about going in there with one bare foot and a considerable amount of dried blood on my clothing. This is the Bronx after all. But best to minimize the visual impact I might make.

The urban theorist Jane Jacobs observed many years ago that huge cites create environments where small niches can flourish.

Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

I do find myself missing the energy of New York more and more often as my time away from the city progresses.

Obviously I'm missing the city life.

I have a very resilient Brooklyn personality that allows me to stay thick-skinned and focused on my mission and goals.

We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did.

On 'City Music', I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes.

My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are.

Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.

We need to find innovative ways to dramatically ease congestion, improve personal mobility, and cut energy use.

At least inside the city of Seattle, driving is going to be a hobby in 2035. It's not going to be a mode of commuting the same way hunting is a hobby for some people, but it's not how most of us get our food.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.

L.A. and America, in general, have this incredible hustle about them. There's this sense of momentum.

New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

Some days I work out, some days I walk around the city. I don't know... It just depends on the mood, really.