Quotes About Urban

I was a real East Village girl.

Earlier, there were only two hairstyles. If the hero had a fringe, he was village bumpkin. If he slicked his hair back, he was an urban sophisticate.

Panchayat' is set in a village and is the story of an urban man coming to the village.

Athletics talent is more prominent in the villages than in the urban areas because the main factor determining the difference is hard work which is an integral part of an athlete's training.

London is a series of villages, really. I like that.

I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.

There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

I want to be clear that violent crime isn't just a St. Louis or Kansas City problem.

A short distance away from thriving city centres in virtually all of our cities, you will find areas of endemic worklessness, alienation, crime and antisocial behaviour.

I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.

New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.

New York City is one of the best cities in the world for walking: it's virtually impossible to get lost.

By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.