Quotes About Urban

I decided to go and find India on my own. So, I hired a cab for a drive round old Delhi. I was knocked off center by the sheer energy that goes into daily survival.

When I told people in Dubai that I am going to leave my job here and head to Mumbai, they were convinced that I will not survive in the dust, grime, pollution.

Shooting in Los Angeles is always pleasant and comfortable. Shooting in New York is like being on 'Survivor.'

I want a house with a garden, but slap bang in the centre of London. Next door to a sushi bar.

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked to mobility - and social diversity.

People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.

Getting around San Francisco should be convenient, safe, affordable, and sustainable.

For me personally, it is one of my biggest priorities to build a sustainable city that can respond properly to the climate change.

My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.

See, New York is over the hill. It's swallowed up in its own garbage. And the people - I can't stand the people.

I feel I haven't quite settled in Mumbai. One, it is a cultural shock for me and two, I feel no one really has the time for others in Mumbai. For instance, if you need them, they wouldn't be there despite swearing allegiance to you.

I think New Yorkers are some of the friendliest people in the world, but it just comes out in a different way. In a way where they're swearing at you.

Philadelphia is a town where even the sidewalks seem to sweat.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.

Even in downtown office areas, people would probably beg for a shuttle bus service to ferry them swiftly to the railway stations and bus stations, instead of forcing them to travel squashed up in shared-taxis.

In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything.

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

I was a civil engineer in Sydney, I liked to re-do old houses.

I come from the rougher side of Sydney. I don't know whether you can compare them to the projects, but in Australia, it definitely is the rougher side.

I know how to get around London better than Sydney.

You cannot treat Sydney the same as the rest of the state.