Quotes About Urban

There is no word in any traditional European language which does not either denigrate or patronize the urban poor it is naming. That is power.

Their space has absolutely nothing in common with that of a stage. When experts pretend that they can see here 'the beginnings of perspective', they are falling into a deep, anachronistic trap. Pictorial systems of perspective are architectural and urban – depending upon the window and the door. Nomadic 'perspective' is about coexistence, not about distance.

For two decades, beginning in the early eighteen-seventies, the very thought of an income tax did not enter the American mind, apart from rare occasions when some Populist or Socialist agitator would propose the establishment of such a tax designed specifically to soak the urban rich.

Say no to parking lots!

carried the smell of the streets with him.

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.

Los Angeles] the world's biggest third-class city...

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

London, dirty little pool of life

I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.

One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!

How do you prevent attacks from becoming the very fabric of lived life in a city? Of course it's very easy to say you should be fearless and go about your daily life.