Quotes About Urban

To my grandparents Detroit was like one big Koza Han during cocoon season. What they didn't see were the workers sleeping on the streets ...

Judge Woodward envisioned the new Detroit as an urban Arcadia of interlocking hexagons. Each wheel was to be separate yet united. This dream never quite came to be. Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

For instance, as the police arrive, there are girls lined along the street, girls in miniskirts, thigh-highs, and halter tops. (The sea wrack Milton hoses from the sidewalk every morning includes the dead jellyfish of prophylactics and the occasional hermit crab of a lost high heel.)

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I find the post-industrial environment of central Manchester oppressive and perturbing. The treeless labyrinths of monumental brick edifices that line streets both narrow and wide cannot help but make one feel hemmed in.

Another part of Bit's unifying urban theory is sprinklers, that you can gauge a neighborhood's wealth by the way people water. If every house has an automatic system, you're looking at a six-figure mean. If the majority lug hoses around, it's more lower-middle class. And if they don't bother with the lawns... well, that's the sort of shitburg where Bit and Julie always lived, except for that little place they rented in Wenatchee the summer Bit worked at the orchard.

on the street they moved with purpose, at different speeds but in straight lines, like a thousand bullets fired at a thousand different angles from a thousand different guns. All of these people moving in the way they thought right . . .

I see the people who have lived here forever. They walk quickly, indifferent to the buildings. They cross the squares without stopping. I

Car horns, shrill and prolonged, blared one after another. Flashing sirens heralded endless emergencies, and a fleet of buses rumbled past, their doors opening and closing with a powerful hiss, throughout the night. The noise was constantly distracting, at times suffocating.

I like taking the subway to work.

Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.

Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

Take responsibility for the city

At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.

New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination.

At least in Phoenix, you can get off the main highways and take side streets to where you want to go. In L.A., you can't. You're stuck.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out you can't see any stars living in the city. I studied some light-pollution maps, and knew I'd have to get out of San Antonio.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.