Quotes About Cityscape

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

I won't go anywhere near the new Times Square. It's seizure-inducing.

Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on tires under the Champs-Elysees and beyond.

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

There are so many more people in Tokyo than in New York, but it's pristine. It's so organized, and yet the address system is in complete chaos.

I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!

The buildings appear to be glued together, mostly small houses and apartment blocks that looked nervous. There is murky snow spread out like carpet. There is concrete, empty hat-stand trees, and gray air.

Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road.

And I still surfed on Manhattan static.

Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.

You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.

Y, mirando hacia los rascacielos, se quedó esperando a recibir sensaciones de entusiasmo, de emoción, de plenitud, de felicidad. Sin embargo, la espera se reveló únicamente como una espera, sin más. Una espera plana, sin sobresaltos, sin entusiasmo alguno. Cuanto más miraba a los rascacielos en busca de cierta intensidad, más evidente se hacía que no iba a llegarle sensación especial alguna.

Dickens became one of the greatest interpreters of urban life because he was a prodigious walker; his visceral encounters with the physical and human cityscape run through all his work. Urban literature is bound up with walking, because walking takes you away from the familiar, down "long perplexing lanes untrod before," as John Gay put it in his 1716 poem "Trivia; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London.

It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.

In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and terrible.

When a train pulls into a great city I am reminded of the closing moments of an ouverture.

Here and there, small balconies jutted out to meet one another overhead

Her eyes followed the long road that began south of the Great City

The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down, to drown in their own reflections.

A city is the weirdest, loneliest thing.

at times the city can feel self-satisfied, even solipsistic

Everywhere were metastasizing telephone lines, riots of electric wires, laundry hanging from prefabricated apartment windows like tears from idiot eyes.