I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible. — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
There are many sides of the urban life that I dislike, but there are many sides I am deeply in love with… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
“We’ve built a ‘human zoo,’ caging ourselves in routines, technology, and artificial environments.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
“I found Baghdad, like most big cities in the world: big, exciting, interesting, rich, poor, hot, cold, restless, sleepless, and cruel at… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
“New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover,… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive… — Dave Reichert Copy Share Image
“I didn’t tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses.… — Carole Katchen Copy Share Image
“But as urban life accelerated and expanded, it disrupted the old sense of order. This new way of living generated unprecedented social… — Ilia Delio Copy Share Image
As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“From the advertisement, his eyes moved up the skywalk, the zigzagging metal bridge that connected various locations in the neighborhood to the… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
“With its population made up of two categories of people, those who do business and those upon whom they prey, the city… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“When you visualized the future and conjured up a world where urban life had spread everywhere and man had achieved his long-desired… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“The absence of trust is clearly inimical to a well-run society. The great Jane Jacobs noted as much with respect to the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
