Quotes About Urban

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

I once asked a policeman how far it was to the subway. he said, "I don't know, no one has ever made it".

Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Welcome to Glasgow - the city where we punch people who are on fire.

I live in Los Angeles, I know it exists. I know you're not supposed to taste air.

Snug pants, bandeau-type corset, and trim, motorcycle jacket. It was a fabulous outfit, but it was so urban-fantasy book cover

Then he kept to the back streets, and found a place that did a very reasonable double sausage, egg, bacon and fried slice, in the hope that food could replace sleep.

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.

For GQ's Andrew Corsello, Louis C.K.'s qualification to be considered El Supremo is that he is more than a comedian—he is a bug zapper of white lies and dark impulses, an urban shaman receiving and transmitting warped vibrations, a psychic surgeon delving into our shifty, cloaked selves.

If you can't see the beauty in the dirt then I feel sorry for you. And if you can't see why these streets are special, then just go home already.

Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.

Neither the city planners nor the traffic planners put city space and city life high on their agenda, and for years there was hardly any knowledge about how physical structures influence human behavior. The drastic consequences of this type of planning on people's use of the city were not recognized until later.

The diagram shows three streets with heavy, moderate and light

For decades the human dimension has been an overlooked and haphazardly addressed urban planning topic, while many other issues, such as accomodating the rocketing rise in car traffic, have come more strongly into focus. In addition, dominant planning ideologies — modernism in particular — have specifically put a low priority on public space, pedestrianism and the role of city space as a meeting place for urban dwellers.

First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.