Quotes About Urban

St. Louis is an excellent city.

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services.

I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

I lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and now my kids are growing up in Los Angeles, so that's culturally very different.

This city of East St. Louis needs a tomorrow.

I loved the city of St. Louis.

St. Louis and communities across the nation need the Green New Deal for Cities.

I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light.

We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings. We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.

Don't let the city steal your soul.

One of the reasons that the area would never be renovated, however, was the council's insistence that each house had three large plastic trash-bins on wheels, each a bright color: green for the bottles left over from last night's drunken orgy, red for stolen goods now surplus to requirements, purple for dead bodies and used syringes, all in fact that a modern British urban household needs to disembarrass itself of.

Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction.

However, my first visits to the tenement-house districts in question made me feel that, whatever the theories might be, as a matter of practical common sense I could not conscientiously vote for the continuance of the conditions which I saw. These conditions rendered it impossible for the families of the tenement-house workers to live so that the children might grow up fitted for the exacting duties of American citizenship.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

The respectable London druggists, in widely remote quarters of London, from whom I happened lately to be purchasing small quantities of opium, assured me, that the number of amateur opium-eaters (as I may term them) was, at this time, immense; and that the difficulty of distinguishing these persons, to whom habit had rendered opium necessary, from such as were purchasing it with a view to suicide, occasioned them daily trouble and disputes.