Urban Quotes - Page 9

• It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.

  Antoine Predock

  America, Venice, Energy

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• Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years ago and was then benign, and we were no significant threat to Gaia. Now that we are over six billion hungry and greedy individuals, all aspiring to a first-world lifestyle, our urban way of life encroaches upon the domain of the living Earth.

  James Lovelock

  Christian, Years, Humanity

  James Lovelock (2007). “The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

  Eileen Myles

  Sometimes, Scribes, Mass

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• I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

  Kenzo Tange

  Special, Development, Planning

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• In years to come cities will stretch out horizontally and will be non-urban (Los Angeles). After that, they will bury themselves in the ground and will no longer have names. Everything will become infrastructure bathed in artificial light and energy. The brilliant superstructure, the crazy verticality will have disappeared. New York is the final fling of this baroque verticality, this centrifugal excentricity, before the horizontal dismantling arrives, and the subterranean implosion that will follow.

  Jean Baudrillard

  New York, Crazy, Light

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• Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.

  Romeo Santos

  Artist, People, Giving

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• Canada can be tough for urban music.

  Melanie Fiona

  Urban Music, Canada, Tough

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• I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

  Dani Shapiro

  Country, Living In The Country, Persons

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• From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with paving, landform, water, vegetation and climate.

  Tom Turner

  Art, Garden, Water

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• My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

  Nate Ruess

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Shoes

  "Fun's Nate Ruess on Black Tie and Band Fashion". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 29, 2012.

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• While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society.

  Clarence Thomas

  Children, Needs, Politics

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• Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.

  Fergie

  Rap, Kids, Gun

  "Fergie admits drugs shame!" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2006.

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• Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles.

  Greg Peterson

  Simple, Creating, Farms

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• I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together. Imagine small strips of land between apartment buildings that have been turned into vegetable gardens, and urban orchards planted at schools and churches to grow food for our communities. The seeds of the urban farming movement already are growing within our reality.

  Greg Peterson

  School, Reality, Garden

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• [T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.

  Greg Peterson

  Pride, Names, Creating

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• Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism.
  Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.

  Michael Crichton

  Atheist, Powerful, Choices

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Mother, Flower, Men

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• Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, Creative, Culture

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.177, Macmillan

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• Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

  Jonathan Raban

  Art, Real, Men

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• In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

  Mark Batterson

  Past, Church, Environment

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• Things go in cycles. It's like fashion, like flares go out then skinny jeans come in, people want something fresh. It's the strongest ever urban scene at the moment and I hope it can progress and keep getting stronger and be the base for something larger.

  Katy B

  Fashion, Jeans, Want Something

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

  Taio Cruz

  Thinking, Class, Use

  "Vanessa Laker Meets Taio Cruz: The Interview". Interview with Vanessa Laker, vanlaker.wordpress.com. September 11, 2010.

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• I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

  David Guetta

  Bridges, Culture, Brands

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not an urban person.

  David Guterson

  Literature, Persons

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• The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation.

  Leslie Jamison

  Past, Years, Battle

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