Quotes About Urban

a pair of storefronts. Charlie Brody fell in love with and married a girl named Marion Cuomo, whose

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

Ghetto denizens are supposed to stay put. That's what the ghetto is for. Straight Outta Compton was a jailbreak.

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

New York is an organic city, one that is always in transition. Within a lifetime (often in only a few decades) neighborhoods grow, gain prominence, peak, and return to oblivion.

That public spaces are not really public for you, but a series of surprise private moments that you can't prevent or erase. And so you put your headphones on and look straight ahead and don't smile even when they tell you to and just keep walking.

Berlin ist natürlich großartig. Man denkt, man sitzt im Kino. Aber ich weiß nicht recht, ob ich immer hier leben möchte. In Neustadt haben wir den Obermarkt und den Niedermarkt und den Bahnhofsplatz. Und die Spielplätze am Fluß und im Amselpark. Das ist alles. Trotzdem, Professor, ich glaube, mir genügt's. Immer solcher Fastnachtsrummel, immer hunderttausend Straßen und Plätze? Da würde ich mich dauernd verlaufen.

How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.

In an analogy that would prove all too apt, Max Weber likened the city to "a human being with his skin removed.

installed in Europe. Berlin had only 120,000 cars, but at any given moment all of them seemed to collect here, like bees to a hive. One could watch the whirl of cars and people from an outdoor

ONE MORNING IN AUGUST 1886, as heat rose from the streets with the intensity of a child's fever

In the first six months of 1892 the city experienced nearly eight hundred violent deaths. Four a day.

The city had laid miles and miles of streets and sewers through regions where perhaps one solitary house stood out alone

As the crowd thundered, a man eased up beside a thin, pale woman with a bent neck. In the next instant Jane Addams realized her purse was gone. The great fair had begun.

In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.

She tooled around the city in an electric car.

The city was full of everything; it was an inspiring testament to man's ambition and a stark reminder of his animal past.

We found a way to compare the pollution in earwax from different cities.

Empire State Building observation

The city is built on an inhuman scale. Everything is by design inconvenient for Homo sapiens.

On the sidewalks everyone holding either a giant coffee or a cell phone, as though a law had been declared against public displays of empty-handedness.

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