I realized how little I knew about my own country. I had grown up in the suburbs and, after college, I moved… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
“Since the Leeburg Pike [at Tyson's Corner] carries six to eight lanes of fast-moving traffic and the mall lacks an obvious pedestrian… — Dolores Hayden Copy Share Image
“In 1995 Bank of America issued a famous report on sprawl in California. The bank pronounced: 'Urban job centers have decentralized to… — Dolores Hayden Copy Share Image
The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas,… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed… — Jonathan Tucker Copy Share Image
I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
When it came to hip-hop... I don't know. Maybe I was insecure. You know, this is the early '90s. If you were… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
“I am opposed to Naperville. It's all cute, trendy and expensive, and filled with cookie-cutter Borg houses that assimilate you into upper-middle-class… — Robyn Bachar Copy Share Image
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love...… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization… Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I grew up in a Cleveland suburb called Parma, Ohio. Somewhere along the way I fell in love with a typeface called… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
“I was playing a new part in a new play: the messed-up adult child coming home in a truly pitiful state in… — Inna Swinton Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot… — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
Many expanded-time schools have generated extraordinary results. In some cases, they have completely closed the achievement gap, all while installing curricula with… — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
“I stepped from the air-conditioned compartment onto the station platform, and the motherly breath of the suburbs enfolded me. It smelt of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Each additional child that you have is going to divide your time and your attention. You're going to have to cram them… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's really kind of a real thrill… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
I thought I'd be living a much more bohemian life and be very poor. I never thought I'd do comedy or be… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Basketball talent is basketball talent, no matter if it comes from the suburbs or the city. Take the time to know and… — Chris Webber Copy Share Image
I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in… — Robert Powell Copy Share Image
Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns… — Bob Taft Copy Share Image
Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then,… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
“There is a widespread belief that americans hate cities. I think it is probable that Americans hate city failure, but, from the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
When I first came to America, I went into William Morris Endeavor for a meeting and I was like, "Yeah, I'm from… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
“I drove through the suburbs, where all the houses looked identical, one variation of another of the same thing. I said to… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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