“Congratulations to Ohio State, your new college football champions. Coach Urban Meyer may be the greatest football coach of all time. Don't confuse him with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. That's urban quagmire.” MayStatesNew YorkFootballCollegeBillsCoachesAll TimeChampionUrbanCongratulationsMayorsOhioCollege FootballFootball CoachQuagmireOhio State Author:David Letterman
“I was so urban-centric once. I did not want to see a patch of grass. I did not want to look at a tree. I didn't want to be anywhere near a sparrow, or a squirrel, or a pigeon, because I just wanted to be consumed by the asphalt-jungle aspect of New York.” WantLooksWantedTreeNew YorkAspectGrassUrbanJungleConsumedPatchesPigeonsSquirrelsSparrowsAsphalt Author:Carlos Dengler
“Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you’re always going to come back.” ThinkingStatesMovingDarkCreativityMiddleNew YorkBedAreasSouthLabelsIslandsMassiveFlawsChicagoSouthernUrbanRomanticismFertileWeirdnessKentuckyProgressivismLouisville Author:Jim James
“New York has been, and will continue to be, a magnet for people from all over the world. This is where the arts, business, research and technology converge to create the world's foremost urban economy.” PeopleWorldHas BeensArtTechnologyEconomyNew YorkResearchUrbanMagnet Author:Michael Bloomberg
“I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.” PeopleKnowsWorldKindAmericaCenturyNew YorkAreasCatholicWho I AmItalianImpressedUrban20th CenturyDecencyDowntownRoman CatholicItalian AmericanSkid Row Author:Martin Scorsese
“New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.” MenWorldHardNew YorkExampleMouthsUniversalSellsInstinctPrimeConspiracyUrbanEyebrowsHerdsBirthrightPavement Book:1949-1959 Source: 1949-1959
“The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is clinically clean and incredibly dull.” PeopleLooksValuesSexResultsNew YorkDrugAreasSafetyCleanDullShopsSquaresUrbanHomelessSuburbsCleanlinessDullnessHomeless PeopleTimes SquareOrderlinessUrban Areas Author:Rem Koolhaas
“I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds to fighting terrorism than any other municipality.” KnowsCountryFightingCitiesNew YorkHighestAreasRemainsTerrorismFundNew York CityUrbanDensityMunicipalityUrban AreasFighting Terrorism Author:Jose Serrano
“Well, I'm kind of an urban girl, I like big cities. I like New York, I like London, I like L.A. I like people, I get lonely, really, really easily. But, I think it was good. It was very different and I think that's good.” PeopleThinkingWellsKindDifferentBigsGirlCitiesNew YorkLonelyLondonUrbanBig CitiesGirl I Like Author:AnnaSophia Robb
“If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses.” IfsCitiesNew YorkSourceRoseCornersFantasticUrban Author:Clinton Smith
“I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city” WorldWritingMadeCoursesFeltSpacePowerfulCitiesPiecesFiguresNew YorkChangedShapesBuiltDecadesObligationBeachBridgesAcknowledgeParksMost PowerfulArchitectTransformedMultipleUrbanHighwaysInfluentialMosesCivicsIconic Author:Sufjan Stevens
“In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you go to the wrong college, you take the wrong job. Any of these things could really get you in trouble down the road. Or in your mind anyway. You're afraid to make any move, it's paralyzing.” MindPersonsJobsMovingTroubleNew YorkCollegeStakesUrbanDown The RoadWrong PersonWrong Job Author:Meghan Daum