Quotes About Urban

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

That was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights)

Sitting by the windowI was thinkingWhat changed so fastlyMe or the city...

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)

My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.

architecture is a way of life

Like all supposedly classless societies, America makes up for its lack of formal caste barriers by raising class prejudice to a fine art; the cheap shots at small town America so common among the urban middle classes who dominate today's green scene are an expression of that, and so is the peer pressure that keeps most Americans from doing the sensible thing and buying cheap and sturdy used products in place of increasingly overpriced and slipshod new ones.

Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

Tower'd cities please us then,And the busy hum of men.

As one who long in populous city pent.

Growing numbers of Western gay sex tourists have discovered that Luxor is billed as a gay hotspot by gay-themed international Web sites. Ostensibly promoting the alien Western concept of "gay rights" in a country where only a tiny, Westernized, urban "gay" elite can or would ever want to relate to it, the Web sites concentrate more heavily on providing up-to-the-minute information to Western gay men looking for paid sex with locals.

Later on I would think of America as one vast city of night.-John Rechy, City of Night

I discovered the jungle of Central Park—between the 60s and 70s, on the west side. In the afternoons, Sundays especially, a parade of hunters prowled that area—or they would sit or lie on the grass waiting for that day's contact.

Maybe I could love you. But I wont. The grinding streets awaited me.

From the street, I looked up into the apartment buildings, into the naked windows of the tiny cubicle-rooms. More haggard faces peering blankly; skinny, maimed bodies of uncaring women in slips; men without shirts. All have the same look: the look of nolonger-questioning, resigned doom. The world on its knees. Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Hoods, hobos, hustlers, homosexuals. Hunting.

Mexico City's reputation as Murder City South has endured down the centuries. Between 1860 and 1875, the Mexican capital was billed as the most dangerous metropolis on the planet.

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

I had thought Chicago was inevitable, like diarrhea.

New York in the '80s is not a bad place. If you can't make there, you can't make it anywhere.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

MIT-trained urban development expert Wig Zamore said: "IKEA is the least sustainable retailer on the planet.

Mike, happy cities are all alike, but every unhappy city is unhappy in its own way.

I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.