Quotes About Urban

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

Harlem is filled with moments of history.

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word "home."

I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads.

South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.

Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

There is something very nice about coming to New York and how everyone smiles - even if they don't mean it. When I go back home to London and say hello to people, they look at me like I'm crazy.

I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.

My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.

Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.

We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.

When you're around the aura of humanity in those cities, you can't feel anything.

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.