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Tag Name "Urban" (251)

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Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going to benefit from the models adopted.
Enrique Penalosa
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Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
Jesse Jackson
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Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly.
Uma Thurman
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Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way.
Russell Baker
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Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is.
Russell Simmons
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Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.
Geoff Lawton
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information
Nancy Pearcey
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Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too that's horrific when people say that their art isn't Aboriginal if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.
Warwick Thornton
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Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.
Ellen Lupton
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Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.
Kushal Pal Singh
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Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.
Moshe Safdie
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Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.
Narendra Modi
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
Wendell Berry
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Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.
Alex Steffen
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URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, I beg your pardon, and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.
Ambrose Bierce
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The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.
Hari Sreenivasan
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So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water and your breath, you know that kind of thing - it was pure poetry and you know I treasure that.
DJ Spooky
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There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.
Shane Claiborne
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We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now - people who are not beholden to a think tank, corporate-owned media, or academic department - and even many literary writers look and behave like young urban professionals and canny careerists.
Pankaj Mishra
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I wanted to improve the suburban office building to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.
Helmut Jahn
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33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space.
Donald Shoup
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Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to represent poverty, even though poverty exists all over the country, and exists as much in urban areas as it does in rural, if not more.
Silas House
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The present Indian government, however, is neither able or willing to accept the challenge and to provide the leadership in breaking the resistance of urban and rural interests.
Paul A. Baran
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There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.
Hunter Hayes
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