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Quotes About Urban

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.
~ Meles Zenawi
If Congress allows the USPS to collapse and private companies take over the mail business, we can expect what we have seen with private internet providers: thorough service in urban areas that will turn a healthy profit, either none or very expensive service in rural areas.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see it as, you know, not having many other options. I think it comes down to money and needing to survive.
~ Cutter Hodierne
Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.
~ Ron Wyden
The majority of small-holder farmers in Africa are women and, in urban areas, you're primarily looking at women-led households. So we can't solve hunger if we don't have gender-sensitive programming that addresses access to opportunities for women, whether it's through education or tools for cooking, like solar-powered stoves.
~ Ertharin Cousin
Millennials want to live in urban areas.
~ Marc Veasey
Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.
~ Laura Moser
I spent my whole life in Maryland, but I wanted to experience more - fighting to get to urban areas where there was culture.
~ Maggie Rogers
Colonial history contains many examples of firearm regulations in urban areas that imposed obstacles to their use for protection of the home.
~ John Paul Stevens
We are a layered society, so what may be taken easily by an urban audience may not go down well with those watching the same film in suburban areas.
~ Sharmila Tagore
People of color face more barriers to health care, as do low-income individuals and those living in underserved rural and urban areas.
~ Leana S. Wen
We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.
~ Chris Grayling
Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.
~ Bernie Taupin
The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.
~ Jaime Lerner
American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.
~ William J. Mitchell
His work "The Pasture" features cast bronze cows in Toronto's financial district I wanted to remind stockbrokers what real stock is.
~ Joe Fafard
From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.
~ David Byrne
As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options
~ Gavin Newsom
The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.
~ Berenice Abbott
The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff.
~ Jonathan Katz
A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.
~ Wesley Snipes
Just the city of Stockholm was really, really nice. Walking around the city was pretty cool.
~ Joe Thornton
I made an urban-looking bicycle that could stand up to potholes. Of course, it was stolen instantly - proof of the genius of its design.
~ David Linley
The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.
~ Michael Chertoff