Quotes About Cityscape

an image of the city, becoming fixed upon it as a threat and above all as a source of destabilization.

A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

Let us roam then, you and I, When the evening is splayed out across the sky [...] Paths that follow like a nagging accusation Of a minor violation To lead you to the ultimate reproof ... Oh, do not say, 'Bad kitty!' Let us go and prowl the city. In the rooms the cats run to and fro Auditioning for a Broadway show." (From The Love Song of J. Morris Housecat )

When he watched TV, all he saw was an image of his own face, with a mysterious empty city in the background.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Forget the damned motor car and build cities for lovers and friends.

It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

Utopia would mean a park - some large, some small - every four or five blocks.

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

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This is the city of disguises.

He liked city walking. He didn't want to have to go to that place called countryside to take a walk. He wanted to stuff his hands in his pockets, set his internal compass vaguely east or south and wander till he was tired enough to get the bus home.

Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.

We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

The streets of New York are entirely man-made and unmistakably that, so you feel as though you're on some sort of presentation platform whenever you're out on the streets.

When you go to the big city - you're in New York, Boston, you're in L.A. - you walk in the streets, and nobody says anything to you. It becomes so impersonal because there's so many people.

Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs.

Now Second Avenue is a dismal street, made from scraps and ends; part cobblestone, part asphalt, part cement; and its atmosphere of desertion is permanent.

The earth is becoming intensely citified. "The megacity will be at the heart of twenty-first-century geography," Robert D. Kaplan writes in The Revenge of Geography.

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

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.