Quotes About Urban

Dallas was not a caring city, but it was efficient.

The New York scene is so much bigger than in Dallas.

People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me.

I hate those damn streetcars - they are just a pain in the rear-end. You get behind them and you can't get around them and then you get your cyclists too.

Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.

Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.

At heart, I'm a dude from South Central Los Angeles. We roll the way we roll because we had survival tactics; we had to learn how to adapt. That's just me.

I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.

I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.

Think of a world where there is no ride-sharing; people are driving themselves to work. You now have 30 people being served by 30 cars. Those 30 cars are only served 4% of the day; 96% of the day, they're stored somewhere. Around 20% to 30% of our land is taken up just storing these hunks of metal that we drive around in for 4% of the day.

We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.

I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

I don't have many hobbies or talents other than cooking, but I've always been good at figuring out a city.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.

In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.

Among the things I love about London is that there is a lot of green space and that the buildings are not very tall.

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

I first discovered Tampa in my 20s when I met my wife, who was living there, and I instantly fell in love with the city. It's somewhere between a big city and small town, so you get the feeling of both.

Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins.

LOS ANGELES IS a busted jukebox in a forgotten bar at the ass end of the high desert. The city only exists between the pops, skips, and scratches of the old 45s.

Count to sixty and start again, trying to time the drive. It's well over an hour. In most towns that would mean we're halfway to Argentina, but in L.A. it means we could be circling the block looking for parking.