Quotes of: American-cities Keyword

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

Cecil Beaton

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.

James Howard Kunstler

I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are ...

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Michael Bloomberg

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

Lee H. Hamilton

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet ...

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority-African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way.

Ray Nagin

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

A blanket could be used as an American flag. It could keep the world warm with its patronizing patriotism and imperialism. 


Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

A brick could be used in a levitation demonstration. The best way to keep it afloat, along with the American Dream, is with debt and denial.


Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

A great American city is fighting for its life.

Marc Morial

Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city. It is a complex order. Its essence is intricacy of sidewalk use, br...

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't p...

Tim Meadows

Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

Henry Rollins

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

Middlesex

Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.

Shawn Amos