Quotes About Urban

Nonc looks out on the city. It looks like one of those end-times Bible paintings where everything is large and impressive, but when you look close, in all the corners, some major shit is befalling people.

I]t's impossible to overestimate the need to maintain a healthy peasant class, as the basis of the national community. Many of our present evils have their origin exclusively in the imbalance between urban and rural populations. A solid group of small- and mid-scale farmers has always been the best protection against social disease.

I feel like the D.C. streets just love Gucci Mane. He's like a hood pastor.

Growing up in the inner city, you might not see a lot of different career paths and different jobs.

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character.

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.

One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you.

Well if you from New Jersey, you always knew that going to Jersey Shore was way different from where you lived at. I live in Newark, and that is 150 percent opposite of Jersey Shore.

When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row.

Light in the streets, shadows in the house. #CVirusTruth

we know that every alleviation, however slight, of the wretchedness of our great cities is followed by a very considerable diminution of crime;

As my friends became older, many of them married and moved out of Soho into the suburbs where their failure would be less apparent.

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

When the traffic is at a standstill, some of the smaller cottages look dwarfed by the cars. It is possible for the people in the cottages and the cars to look at one another.

Heard from whom? I always hated this small-town-grapevine nonsense. That's something I love about the city. The anonymity. No one knows who you are, and no one gives a shit about your business. It's a beautiful thing.

Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most of us care to imagine. Cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable.

There are many signs of the value created by all the exchange that takes place in a city. We see it in productivity and wage data. We also see it in the increase in the value of the land.

You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.

How real can your music be if you wake up in the morning hearing birds and crickets? I never hear birds when I wake up. Just a lot of construction work, the smell of Chinese takeout, children screaming, and everybody knocking a different track from 'Ready to Die' as they pass down the street.