“Right after the show tonight, I'm going to the New York City car show. You get to see the models that will be crashed next year by drunken Secret Service agents.” YearsShowsNextSecretCitiesCarNew YorkModelsAgentsTonightNew York CityNext YearSecret Service Author:David Letterman
“Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.” IdeasUsedJoyCitiesWeekMinutesCreationBrotherModelsBuiltDestructionFantasticAttractiveMy BrotherDestroyingNew ThingsInseparable Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.” YearsArtIdeasRealCitiesBuildingModelsDrawingScalesWeatherCraftsExpertsEngagementInteractionUrbanRecognizingSculptureMaintainingThrough The YearsCollaborating Author:Janet Echelman
“I sometimes look at the careers of other... I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the 4 or 5 guys who go to New York City and get a loft and work together and use each other as models and that sort of thing and wait for years and years to get married. Maybe I just wasn't that definite.” KnowsYearsLooksSometimesUseTogetherArtistGuyWaitingCitiesCareersNew YorkMarriedModelsWorking TogetherNew York CityDefinite Author:Mike Royer
“Our message will be that we're going to make federal government buildings a model - an energy-efficient model - and also start matching grants for cities and counties so that they can also do the same with their government buildings.” GovernmentEnergyCitiesBuildingMessagesModelsGrantsEfficientFederal GovernmentCountyMatching Author:Barbara Boxer
“I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar, as a great scale model: the city as an avatar of itself.” WorldCitiesIdentityModelsFoundationStructureScalesBelongingTemporarySiteInfrastructureAfarInstallation Author:Olivo Barbieri
“Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities, traders, merchants, travelers, with a wide range of personalities.” PeopleStoriesNightCitiesClassMiddlePersonalityModelsWideTraditionalRangeMiddle ClassTravelerMerchantsTradersArabianAristocraticLiving In The CityArabian Nights Author:Marina Warner
“There's a team of filmmakers who follow me in the streets when I'm finding these models, to give me a sense of legitimacy to a casual stranger. This is New York City. No one's going to follow you back to your studio.” GivingCitiesTeamStreetsNew YorkFindingsModelsGive MeStudiosStrangerFilmmakerNew York CityCasualFollow MeLegitimacy Author:Kehinde Wiley
“With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health problems from jobs. And with a teacher value-added model algorithm [used in New York City to score teachers], I worry literally that it's not meaningful. That it's almost a random number generator.” PeopleProblemJobsUsedValuesNumbersCitiesWorryTeacherNew YorkExamplePersonalityModelsTestsMental HealthMeaningfulOutcomesScoreRacistNew York CityHiringAlgorithmsHealth ProblemsGeneratorRecidivism Author:Cathy O'Neil
“To view space as, "Well, let's go to Mars now," or "Let's do this now," maybe we should rethink of space as our backyard and have a suite of launch vehicles that can enable any ambition a person has regarding space. It's the same way you can go to buy a car: I want to go offroading, I'll buy this model. I'm a city driver, that's this model. I want to use less fuel, well, that's this model. They're not selling you one car, you have options. So when I think of space, I think of having options.” ThinkingWayWantShouldWellsPersonsUseSpaceViewsCitiesCarAmbitionModelsSellingFuelDriversVehicleMarsBackyards Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I think people's minds are going to have to assimilate in the sense that all the world is international now. The whole world has gone global. I think cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles are the models of our future.” PeopleThinkingWorldMindWholeCitiesGoneModelsInternationalWhole WorldLos AngelesOur FutureSan Francisco Author:Pico Iyer
“A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.” HumansInterestingCitiesIssuesEconomicBehaviorModelsHuman BehaviorDynamicsEconomic Issues Author:Will Wright
“From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It reminded me of the way cities and towns look when you are flying at night. You can't make out much. But the places where people have come together, and stayed, are collections of tiny lights, breaking up the darkness.” PeopleWayLooksLongMadeLightTogetherNightSpaceCitiesDarknessBuildingModelsEmptyTownsFilledDistanceTinyFlyingCollectionsSurrealEmpty SpaceMake OutCities And Towns Book:What Happened to Goodbye Source: What Happened to Goodbye