In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.
You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.
Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.
We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.
Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
Let's face it: innovation in the U.S. is now the province of our thriving city-states. We all know that nothing happens in Washington anymore.
I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.
I think you can tell when a New York show isn't shot in the city. It's so iconic and has such a specific energy.
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.
I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence.
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.
I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of eve...
There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.
I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
