Quotes About Urban

As she walked, trying to find a hotel--any hotel--she was offered at least ten different ways of getting high, four or five ways of getting laid, and at least one way of getting even.

Hepimizi ?stanbul'a ba?layan sadece bu...Burada insan, kafas?n? zerre kadar i?letmeden, mütefekkir bir kimse oldu?una inanmak ve buna ba?kalar?n? da inand?rmak imkan?na malik...Bu ?ehrin ve buradaki muhitlerin dayan?lmaz cazibesi i?te bundan ibaret.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school drop-outs are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did. And they inevitably move into more and more, worse and worse, illegality and immorality.

The very idea of massified advertising meant that large cirulation newpapers were not in the business of selling information to people but rather of selling the attention of their readers to commercial concerns... to tap into the resorvoir of resources constitutred by the growing urban populations

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

I saw the industrial scene and I was affected by it. I tried to paint it all the time. I tried to paint the industrial scene as best I could. It wasn't easy.

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.

Wasn't this what living in New York was supposed to be like, the skyline, the anonymity, coexistence without intimacy?

She had gone to a dinner party in her honor the night before the opening, and everyone had asked, with precisely the same intonation, as though it was a piece of urban Gregorian chant, Where have you been?

The locals were pragmatic about their animals in a way the city people found callous.

Real slum kids with runny noses.