Quotes About Urban

We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen.

What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.

A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories.

I don't love nothing or nobody like I love this city, ya heard me?

You haven't lived until you died in New York.

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

His face was a chipped chunk of concrete, with eyes of flawed onyx. His mouth was a quick stroke, bloodless. His suit coat fluttered behind him, and his arms swung easy as he walked.

explain to a nation in the midst of urban crisis why cities would be better off if governments pulled down public housing instead of constructing it. As you might expect, that message infuriated city planners. The ensuing ruckus attracted the media like sharks to blood in the water.

Befriending a lion on its home turf was one thing, allowing it to roam free in Manhattan was quite another.

about cycling deaths in London written by a woman can be framed through the headline: 'Roads Designed by Men are Killing Women'.10 Such rhetoric exacerbates any existing divisions and each time creates a number of new ones. And for what purpose? Rather than showing how we can all get along better, the lessons of the last decade appear to be exacerbating a sense that in fact we aren't very good at living with each other.

The East-West divide of the Cascade Curtain has long been Washington's homegrown version of the red state–blue state divide that is the current darling of the national punditry. The East looks to the West, and sees arrogant urban liberals; the West thinks of its neighbours to the East as dim-witted rural conservatives. From time to time, a handful of legislators and citizens seriously propose splitting the state in two" (de Place).

All I care about is money and the city that Im from.

The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head.

The City means everything to me while for it I am only its citizen!

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

Much of life for many people, even in the heart of the First World, still consists of waiting in a bus shelter with your shopping for a bus that never comes.

You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives.

The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.

The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.