Quotes About Cityscape

My favourite view is just up the road from my house where, if you look one way, you can see Alexandra Palace, and if you turn the other, you get a panoramic view of the whole of London, including the Gherkin and Canary Wharf.

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Kottbusser Tor was the kind of area that had worn about as well as a music-hall poster, and Admiralstrasse, Number 43 was the kind of place where the rats wore ear-plugs and the cockroaches had nasty coughs.

It was bigger than he remembered, and much uglier. Strange, how when he lived there he had believed everything the Goggle-screens told him about the city's elegant lines, its perfect beauty. Now he saw that it was ugly; no better than any other town, just bigger; a stormfront of smoke and belching chimneys, a wave of darkness rolling towards the mountains with the white villas of High London surfing on its crest like some delicate ship. It didn't look like home.

In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are supposed to look like ants, but that's not true. They look like little people. And the cars look like little cars. And even the buildings look little. It's like New York is a miniature replica of New York, which is nice, because you can see what it's really like, instead of how it feels when you're in the middle of it.

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

That's bizarre to see, L.A., downtown, and to feel like you're the only person there.

Manhattan is just all bank branches.

I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.

A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.

From afar at the end of Tsar Peter Straat, issued in the frosty air the tinkle of bells of the horse tramcars, appearing and disappearing in the opening between the buildings, like little toy carriages harnessed with toy horses and played with by people that appeared no bigger than children.

The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic.

Just the whole city watching

The city is a place where nature is excised and then mourned, killed off then raised from the dead, only to be entombed in caged-off spaces of floral tribute.

Everywhere in New York is cool to see and cool to photograph.

A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.

surrounded by snack and coffee shops that lived off the army of clerks.

All around us, Karachi kept moving