Quotes About Urban

Cars are environmental enemy number one. (from an interview in Attitude, 2002)

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with.

Consider the nature of a city. It is a vast repository of time.

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and New York was the only place where my fears were justified.

The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.

Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the most challenging thing I want to try in my architecture.

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.

You know it's important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it starts to snow on Rodeo Drive.

In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk.

Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.

Personally, I like a generous side of wheelchair access with my cities.

My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street.

Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and at times I miss it and find it tremendously exciting, and other times I want to catch the first thing out that has wheels.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

I cycle whenever possible around London. But I travel first class when I need to fly.

I'm from a city where the tears never end and the pain never stops.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

I think New York style is unique because there's something resourceful about it. Utilitarian. Whereas in Los Angeles, I find people make their cars a day closet. Which, I guess, is resourceful in a different way.