Quotes About Urban

I'm waiting' for my man, Got twenty-six dollars in my hand. He's never early, he's always late, First thing you learn is that you always gotta' wait' - Waiting for the Man

This part of rue Ste.-Catherine wasn't so much an artery as an intestine.

trannies following them as she and Marc walked down the concrete

I think, probably, whether your're better off in the country or in the city depends, in the final analysis, on where you'd rather be. You're best off where you're the happiest.

In Phnom Penh, it seems that the more money you have, the more stairs you have to climb to your home. Ma

New York's ghosts are the unresting souls of the poor, the marginal, the dispossessed, the depraved, the defective, the recalcitrant. They are the guardian spirits of the urban wilderness in which they lived and died.

The bus is late. Cars drive by. Rich people n cars never look at people on the street, at all. Poor ones always do ... in fact it sometimes seems they're just driving around, looking at people on the street. I've done that. Poor people wait a lot. Welfare, unemployment lines, laundromats, phone booths, emergency rooms, jails, etc.

and we hang onto our no place happy to be alive and in the inner city or like we call it home

the city is just too big and too full of people to be alone.

Lovat thinks you can just hide someone in a place like the Commercial Road. You can't! It might be part of one of the busiest cities on earth, but at heart the East End is just a village. Too small to hide out in.

London life made one lazy, he considered. Unfit for real existence.

Pulling down his hat he lingered on the street corner, melting back against a grimy wall of London brick.

Lovat liked and detested London at the same time.

Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.

Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor. Evarts Malloy was very thin. He had worked as a bus driver and he stooped a little

A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights)

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.

If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.

Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design?