Quotes About Urban

I wear a comfy low wedge sandal to run around the city.

If you are walking through the hood and you notice the cracks in the sidewalk where all the weeds, pebbles, dirt and grit settle in, that's me.

As an urban school superintendent, I learned that hiring, training, and investing in professionals to support our children's social and emotional development, meeting academic expectations for students with special needs, and finding more minutes of instruction in the week, not fewer, mattered.

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.

The police need to come down to street level.

What I do know is that liberal Democrat policies in our big cities are not helping anybody, especially our big cities.

Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are.

Cities are central to the shaping and delivery of national policy objectives, and in return, they are the places where social, environmental, and economic policies play out in practice.

Architecture is always political.

I'm from London, and you hardly see stars because of the pollution of light. But in Arizona, there's nothing, so I can see the stars.

Except for the pollution, I love everything about Delhi.

Gentrification is a problem of poor planning.

In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.

Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population.

Some restrictions should be imposed on population. First of all, each city should have certain population, certain limit.

The population of Seoul is decreasing but a large population is not a key element of an advanced city.

I live in Portland. I'm a man of the world, and I live in Portland.

I am committed to ensuring that, as Portland grows, the things we love about our city grow along with us.

Yes, Portland is governable. Yes, it's challenging.

I want Portland to be the cleanest city in America.

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.