Quotes About Urban

São vários os orfãos dos cafés. Quem os frequentou e perdeu abrigo, mas, sobretudo, quem busca em vão um domicílio para a sua relação com a cidade.

Por supuesto que añoraba todo eso con los ojos resecos porque los animales de ciudad no lloran.

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

I lost track of where I ended and the city began, and after a few blocks, I'd have stretched to include the flower stand, the guy selling "designer" handbags on the corner, the skyscrapers' shining geometry, the scent of roasting nuts, the café with its bowl of green apples in the window, and the two gorgeous shopgirls on break, flamingolike and sucking on cigarettes outside their fancy boutique, eyes closed, rapturous, as though to smoke were very heaven.

There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don't worry, people are still fucking crazy.

The director Stanley Kubrick, no doubt attracted by the unusual visuals of urban combat, set Full Metal Jacket in Hue, although in his film the battle is just a backdrop.

according to figures published by the New York City Health Department, for every person around the world bitten by a shark, 25 people are actually bitten by New Yorkers. So

I imagine many urban dwellers love this feeling, that moment when you step out of your building and whatever has preoccupied you goes flapping away like a burst of pigeons rising all at once, wing and wind carrying them out into this pulsing, indifferent life.

monorails writhing like phosphorescent vipers.

By the late 1940s, then, city planners based their work on several key assumptions. Decentralization was the source of urban disruption and decay. They would have to slow or reverse the process while the remainder of the city, especially the central business district, was rebuilt. Freeway construction, at whatever scale, was the play a role in the redevelopment and recentralizing process.

This flexibility meant that local political arrangements influenced the location of urban expressways, thus allowing engineers, truckers, or planners to remodel American cities.

In postwar America, mass production of automobiles and tract housing signaled the beginning of urban decline and suburban sprawl.

Almost everywhere, the new urban expressways destroyed wide swaths of existing housing and dislocated people by the tens of thousands.

It was quite obvious that neighborhoods and communities would be destroyed and people uprooted, but this was thought to be an acceptable cost of creating new transportation routes and facilitating urban economic development.

Inner-city slums could be cleared, blacks removed to more distant second-ghetto areas, central business districts redeveloped, and transportation woes solved all at the same time — and mostly at federal expense.

BPR and state highway engineers had enormous confidence in their own expertise, but they were unprepared for the upsurge of citizen opposition to the urban interstates.

The sky was just beginning to light up a little, the quiet time when all the air is clean and you can hear birds, even in the middle of New York City, the time of day you never see except by accident, and you always tell yourself, "I must get up and appreciate this time of day once in awhile," and then you never do. Don't ask me why.

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.

We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.

Streets full of water. Please Advise.