“Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.” TwoBigsTogetherWinningCommunityTeamFootballMajorsAreasBaseballLeagueTexasOhioColumbusFootball TeamMajor LeagueAustinMetropolitanMajor League BaseballWinning FootballAustin TexasColumbus Ohio Author:Brent Musburger
“It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system.” IfsNeedsEffortWillingAreasCardsAdvertisingJustifyEggsChickensSan FranciscoPaymentMerchantsCooperativesTippingTipping PointMetropolitan Author:David Robertson
“A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.” YoungCitiesMajorsAreasTraditionRootsFloridaMiamiMetropolitan Book:The Corpse Had a Familiar Face Source: The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
“After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.” ResultsSawsNew YorkAreasTerrorismAvailabilityMetropolitan Author:Steve Israel
“With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.” WantStillsIdeasRunningDiesCitiesCreaturesPercentAreasOur SocietyMulticulturalismMetropolitan Author:David Simon
“It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that adolescence sits next to middle age, and they don't know how to relate to each other. In a way, these two cities exist in different centuries. San Diego is a post-industrial city talking about settling down, slowing down, building clean industry. Tijuana is a preindustrial city talking about changing, moving forward, growing. Yet they form a single metropolitan area.” KnowsWayTwoDifferentAgeMovingFormNextSidesCitiesTalkingKnow HowGrowingMiddleCenturyBuildingIndustryAreasCleanEdgesMoving ForwardPostsRelateSettlingAdolescenceSlow DownMiddle AgesPacificSettling DownSlowingSan DiegoMetropolitanTijuana Author:Richard Rodriguez
“That's the best part about being an actor though. One of the rewarding aspects of it is you're actually traveling in parts of the world that one wouldn't necessarily go to just because it's so far removed, but also like even beyond the metropolitan areas. You're in the woods.” WorldActorsAreasAspectWoodsMetropolitan Author:Masiela Lusha
“Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. And yet with more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.” WantStillsIdeasRunningAmericaDiesLostCitiesRevolutionCreaturesPercentAreasOur SocietyMulticulturalismComing BackIndustrial RevolutionMetropolitanRural America Author:David Simon
“I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.” WorldWantWritingWantedFilmAreasEnglandStudiosLondonNew World1960sEmergingSuburbsMetropolitan Author:J. G. Ballard
“Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not the most thrifty thrift store - but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the metropolitan area.” WorldKidsStuffNew YorkAreasStoresAidsHomelessHousingHivThriftMetropolitanThrifty Author:Ezra Miller