Quotes About Urban

Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses.

Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.

You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.

Street artists want to add something to the environment. They consider the audience, whereas graffiti writers don't care about anyone except themselves, they do it purely for the kick.

America is the land of the hustler: it's bigger, bolder, flasher, more in your face, whereas England's more about attention to detail - trying to be refined and classy, and I think a lot of people in the urban scene in this country have had trouble accepting that.

I feel very fragile cycling in London, whereas in Berlin there are proper cycle paths everywhere.

If I have open time, and I'm in Manhattan, I'll just walk to wherever I'm going, even if I could get there faster on the subway. I just love walking the streets of New York.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.

In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.

In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

In Mumbai, life is always on the go, but in Delhi, I get a break; it gives me a lot of peace. Here I feel like I am on a pampered holiday, and I am treated like a princess.

I believe building new subways must be a top priority.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

I like being able to walk or ride my bike to restaurants and do different things.

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish, and the city has never disappointed me.

Restaurants in Chicago are seldom disappointing.

There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.

I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.

What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.

New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.