San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.
I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.
I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year.
I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
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.
Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.
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.