Quotes About Urban

If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

The inner cities, education is almost worthless, it's horrible. We're going to have Common Core ended.

I like alleys. They are the backdoor to everything.

I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

I have nothing against change or evolution, and I'm not one of those people who wants the city to be what it was 40 years ago or whatever, because that's not what New York is, really.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

My goal is always to create something exceptional that enhances cities and enriches the lives of the people who live and work in them.

Living in London is funny - sometimes I love it and think it is absolutely amazing, but sometimes it is just exhausting.

For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera.

I love just being at Lincoln Center - it's so New York! Those fountains!

I don't like litter and blight.

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.

I like where I live here, in London.

If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

New York is tough on lonely people.

Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot.