Urban Quotes

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

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.

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

I always stay in the urban comedy genre because it just never gets old. It's one of those things that people watch, again and again. This is that kind of movie. It gives you longevity.

As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Googles traffic congestion maps.

I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities

The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.

There's something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal".

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.

In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they're a little bit more aware.

I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

There's no real organised body, ... so through the internet people have spread their videos, spread photos, and spread word of a new urban movement.

Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.

Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.

If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.