Areas Quote by Rem Koolhaas

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and…

— Lawrence Block

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is…

— John Steinbeck

Housing is where it all begins. Where you live determines everything from where you shop for food, to how safe your neighborhood is, to…

— Solly Granatstein

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the…

— Megan Abbott

This is supposed to be the Big Apple, with neighborhoods where the houses are all good-looking and the skyscrapers and everything. But to me,…

— William Klein

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

— Majora Carter

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say…

— Eric Bogosian

I grew up in Queens, which is the most diverse borough: the rich and the poor and homeless and people of every sexual orientation…

— Billy Eichner

Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean,…

— J. G. Ballard

In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.

— Joe Bob Briggs

In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's chief characteristic…

— James Howard Kunstler

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard…

— Ed McMahon