Quotes About Urban

Junkie whores on both sides of Calumet clung to the fetid doorways and rotted stoops like painted lice to a filthy crotch.

I was losing, page by page, the fine rules of thought and deed that I had learned in church, from Henry to the Boy Scout Troop in Rockford. I was sopping up the poison off the street like a sponge.

If a pair of pigeons alighted on a discarded newspaper page on a New York street, would they understand the content of the paper?

No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey's, or That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge…. You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

Cities make you afraid.

My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.

Thanks to Eleanor, Roosevelt was probably the only president in American history who had any direct familiarity with urban poverty.

I didn't look over my shoulder; there wasn't a sound behind me on the pavement, but I knew he was coming slowly after me. The crawl of the skin up and down my back told me. Little needles of warning that gathered at the back of my skull told me. I'd never known until then that the jungles aren't so very far behind us, after all, and tails, and four feet instead of two. Where else did those symptoms come from? ("Don't Wait Up For Me, Tonight")

La città non è una giungla d'asfalto, come è stato detto; è uno zoo umano».

London as cell, jail, and favor. London meant "not living in England while living in England,

I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.

She ate up London and spat it out, and now she's recharging her batteries in Bursford before going back into the fray,' Jack said.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

I've always thought of L.A. as the modern version of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights.'

The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.

The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl.

Square Roots creates campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms, right in the hearts of our biggest cities.

Children in urban communities suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome in higher proportions than veterans, and they need therapeutic outlets, which arts and drama has proven to provide.

Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

Street art belongs on the street. But I'm a working street artist and I earn my money selling art in the style of street art via galleries.

Our creative communities in Nashville, in L.A. and New York, and in Austin, those are communities you want to see stay viable.