Quotes About Community

A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.

I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.

You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

I happen to be unique. I'm a Republican that represents an urban area.

I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn't have emerged in Sunnyvale.

I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk around, not a lot of parks. I sort of pictured Manhattan almost, where, besides Central Park, it's all city and big buildings. But now that I'm here, you see people pushing strollers, people hanging out in the park.

New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

The refurbishing and rebuilding of Fenway Park since 2001 has created a new urban neighborhood in Boston.

I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to teach people here in Manhattan so they can do the same.

You know, urban culture is fun; it's lovely.

When our customer leaves Urban Outfitters, the Main Line is the type of place where more of them go than don't.

Black, white, rural, urban, Democrat, Republican, independent. People who come from both ends of the socio-economic spectrum. Male, female. Young and old alike. This is our Kentucky.

Urban living is an intersection of business and personal life.

A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities - New York, San Francisco - or we focus on cities that are having the toughest time - Detroit, Newark, Camden.