Quotes About Urban

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.

Whether we like the idea or not, humanity has the job of managing the planet, a process that can be in direct conflict with long-held beliefs and well-established practices, on the other hand, and with the urban romanticisation and anthropomorphization of animals (the Bambi syndrome), on the other. We need to change how we do things, but in ways that are driven as much by a respect for science and the realities of nature as by emotion.

Taxis are useful in this town, aren't they?" Clayton mused. "So perfectly anonymous. And they all look the same.

After graduation she saw several active deployments in the Urban Rapid Suppression Force. Then her parents were killed by a drone bomb some bunch of anti-imperialist anarchist whack-jobs launched at the sneering symbol of their evil foreign economic oppressors—or, in English, the Italian remote drone systems factory where her father worked.

She walked though the broad thoroughfares between them

Urban violence is in decline for the first time in decades, Cal.