I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
I love Las Vegas because it's the one city less classy than Los Angeles.
I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.
The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.
Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.
I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.
The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.
There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.
There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked to mobility - and social diversity.
Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word.
I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.
City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.
I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
