Quotes About Urban

New York, to Whyte, needed to produce more than just money; it needed to produce social capital. Even as New York careened, he celebrated its street life—"Characters are flourishing," he wrote. "It is the work of a great city to be tolerant of them, and New York is.

I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. It's a rough city to grow up in, and it's a modern-day ghost town.

Hoboken is a neat place.

L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.

I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple.

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

The size of the city and the nature of how independent the neighborhoods are means that not only do people who live outside Chicago not know what is going on there, Chicagoans often don't know what is going on there.

Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.

People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods.

Let me put it this way, I lived in L.A. for 10 years and did not know my neighbors.

I myself lived in London for 20 years, and I never knew my next-door neighbors. I never knew what they did. I never knew their names. They didn't know what I did for a living, and they didn't know my name.

L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.

We need to enter a new era to make nature and humans more emotionally connected in modern cities.

I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.

I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

I'd lived in New Jersey for 30 years. That was long enough. It's too crowded up there, and it's a very dangerous place to live. There's a whole lotta crime.

From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven.

I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.

When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do.