Quotes About Urban

I commuted an hour and a half each way to high school in N.Y.C. I took a bus, a ferry, then a subway.

Moving back to New York is perhaps what I'm most excited about. Alternate side of the road parking. Flip flops on the subway. And any food I want, delivered. Sometimes more than once a day.

Red Hook is cut off from the rest of the borough by the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and has no subway access, forcing residents to rely on the bus, their feet or, for those lucky enough to afford it, a car.

We're not going to attract new businesses if we don't have safe subway systems where everyday employees are able to get to their work in a safe manner.

For me, New York is about anonymity; that's the draw. It's not at all about other people in my business being nearby. It's that I can get on the subway and eavesdrop on conversations that I would never have access to otherwise. That's why I stay. That's why I could never leave.

I take the subway to work. I fly coach back and forth to Chicago.

I remember finding this book, which showed a New York subway train that had been covered in so much graffiti you couldn't recognise it was a train. I thought, 'I want to do that... how do you do that?'

If they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it the motherfuckers who need god we'd be aight

How the Other Half Lives

We live in different times. I would not have described London as a city of gun-toters but that was when Londoners still said sorry when you knock them over and called cappuccinos fluffy coffees & policemen, bobbies!

I suppose a cycle courier knows better than anyone how a murder on Marble Arch can hold up traffic.

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams could be worth lakhs.

Factory windows are always broken.Somebody's always throwing bricks,Somebody's always heaving cinders,Playing ugly Yahoo tricks.

What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?" says Christina. Yes," says Will, looking puzzled. Didn't you?

In the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

Unten wimmelten schwarze Regenschirme und helle Frauenbeine, gelbe Autobusse, Bogenlampen. Sogar ein Baum war da, er streckte Zweige, nicht allzuweit vom Hotel, andere Zweige wie die Bäume in Fredersdorf. Er hatte ein Inselchen von Erde mitten im Asphalt, dieser Berliner Baum, und rund um die Erde einen Zaun, ein Gitter, als müsse er gegen die Stadt geschützt werden. Kringelein, von soviel Fremden und Überwältigendem umgeben, freundete sich ein wenig mit diesem Baum an.

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.