Quotes About Cityscape

New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it's so compressed - if you walk around, you just find things.

The ban against tall buildings was finally lifted in 1957. Nothing much happened at first; downtown remained stunted compared to most other cities of its size. As developer Robert Maguire put it, Los Angeles seemed destined to be a city "just ten stories high, all over hell and gone.

Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

I always found very strong images for my songwriting in New York.

I grew up in southeast London and there's a lot of brutalist architecture.

Spaghetti Junction is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen at night.

Obviously I'm missing the city life.

The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.

After New York City, where I lived and which I also loved, with its sharp right angles and hard surfaces and fast tempo and endless pavement and soaring vertical walls, a giant video game of the mind at the expense of the body

Do what you please in the City, it is there to back and frame you no matter what you do.

The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living - when you come down you may have some doubts.

As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

I'm not the first person to talk about this, but L.A. is just sort of a weird city because it's just a bunch of little towns put together under the umbrella of L.A. So people feel disconnected from each other and far apart, and in a relationship, that can also be a thing.

I see myself as half country boy and half city boy, so I need both to balance me out. I couldn't spend all of my time in either place.

I walked across the snowy plain of the Tiergarten - a smashed statue here, a newly planted sapling there; the Brandenburger Tor, with its red flag flapping against the blue winter sky; and on the horizon, the great ribs of a gutted railway station, like the skeleton of a whale. In the morning light it was all as raw and frank as the voice of history which tells you not to fool yourself; this can happen to any city, to anyone, to you.

Have you ever wondered why in the last century all the great metropolises hastened to build subways?" "To solve traffic problems?" "Before there were automobiles, when there were only horse-drawn carriages? From

I imagined myself a bird, looking down on our city, the Grand Canal like a snake slithering through stone, the city on either side like two hands clasped in prayer

the lights of a distant city seem star-like and pretty but move closer into sight they engulf the whole night

I love knowing that if I was dropped off in Trafalgar Square, I could walk in any direction and see something amazing or eat something delicious.

Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.

I like shooting on location in New York City.

The red tears of tracers shrieked through the thoroughfares and stray bullets cratered the faces of banks, churches, condos, and franchises, every place of worship a city has to offer.