Quotes About Urban

The process of ascent and decline of cities is both rooted in history and changed by it. Successful urban areas today must still resonate with the ancient fundamentals—places sacred, safe, and busy. This was true five thousand years ago, when cities represented a tiny portion of humanity, and in this century, the first in which the majority live in cities.

Mumbai is like Manhattan. Theres a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.

I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.

All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.

Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.

Imogen was a New York City child: open-minded in a way Jule had seen only on television, apparently utterly confident in her own desirability as a friend and hostess.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green. The sky was a crimson battlefield of spring, but London was not afraid. Her smoke mitigated the splendour, and the clouds down Oxford Street were a delicately painted ceiling, which adorned while it did not distract.

If you think of doing something in New York City, you can be certain that at least two thousand other people have the same thought. And of the two thousand who do, about one thousand will be standing in line waiting to do it.

London only stimulates, it cannot sustain

To speak against London is no longer fashionable. The earth as an artistic cult has had its day, and the literature of the near future will probably ignore the country and seek inspiration from the town.