Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.
Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.
Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
Kolkata is special. I have been privileged to spend time in the city and make some great friends there. I like to go there whenever I can.
There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.
New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.
A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.
Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.
The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
I'm not a good tourist. I don't like walking around and looking at things. I like being in a city and working and finding out how other people live.
To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets.
During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.
'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do.
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.
