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344 Urban quotes by 296 unique authors

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins. — Julianne Malveaux
Keeping up with Urban Meyer is more of an Olympic event than handball. — Wright Thompson
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… — Mary J. Blige
A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they… — Tyrese Gibson
Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go… — Ralph Nader
More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me. — Ashley Judd
What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are… — Unknown Author
Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the… — Piper Kerman
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker — Armand Assante
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also be different. It… — Oscar Niemeyer
If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav. — Gary Shteyngart
I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a… — Zaha Hadid
There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties,… — Preston Manning
Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services. The reality is… — Marq de Villiers
The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal. — Steven F. Hayward
Wickedly Dangerous translates a terrifying figure from folklore , the Baba Yaga, into the smart, resourceful, motorcycle-riding Barbara Yager, who travels with her dragon-disguised-as-a-dog best… — Alex Bledsoe
We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl District, and elevated… — Peter Calthorpe
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. — Peter Calthorpe
The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off… — Unknown Author
Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights and sounds, the… — Tony Hiss
As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come… — Alan Cranston
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of… — Alicia Ostriker
I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants,… — Jan Gehl
Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets… — Van Jones
We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national… — William J. Clinton

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