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Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there. -- Alex Steffen
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. -- Irving Babbitt
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes. -- Jamais Cascio
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
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto. -- Stokely Carmichael
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas. -- Dave Reichert
This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view. -- Richard Rogers
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. -- Marshall McLuhan
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound. -- Marshall McLuhan
As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing. -- Kushal Pal Singh
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. -- Charles Lamb
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money. -- John Prebble
The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good. -- Richard Saul Wurman
Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum. -- Bunker Roy
It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated. -- Hilaire Belloc
A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God! -- Richard Carson
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. -- John Berger
A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films. -- Tyrese Gibson
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. -- Ezra Pound
Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man. -- Kelley Armstrong
I have my own production company called Urban Dreams. -- Chaske Spencer
Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense. -- Magic Johnson
I love clothes! Ill wear anything from Urban Outfitters or American Apparel. -- J. R. Celski
I love clothes! I'll wear anything from Urban Outfitters or American Apparel. -- J. R. Celski
Keeping up with Urban Meyer is more of an Olympic event than handball. -- Wright Thompson
Let's do away with the Departments of Education, Energy Commerce, Housing and Urban Development. -- Richard Mourdock
I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development. -- Alphonso Jackson
The Six Faces of the FUTURE are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical. -- Patrick Dixon
With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people. -- Alan Cumming
Met shawty up in Urban Outfitters, she killin' these hoes now I'm murking out with her. -- Lil Wayne
I'm a massive shopper. Topshop, Urban Outfitters - I'm pretty at home on the high street. -- Sophie McShera
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB. -- John Oates
I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class. -- Narendra Modi
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. -- John Oates
I love Urban Fantasy, even though I'm inevitably compared to 'Supernatural,' only a little more edgy. -- Rob Thurman
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information -- Nancy Pearcey
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information. -- Nancy Pearcey
Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe. -- Eileen Myles
I've always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest. -- Bethany Cosentino
Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore. -- Homaro Cantu
What I need is an Urban Thesaurus. I know what money is what I need is 600 different ways to say it. -- Gary Gulman
Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world. -- Kushal Pal Singh
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
Like Free People, the Urban brand is planning to grow by expanding product assortments, expanding the brand reach and by improved marketing. -- Richard Hayne
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. -- Moshe Safdie
I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio. -- B.J. The Chicago Kid
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
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
There are few jobs in the world that are more fun than being the head of Urban Development for a great and thriving city. -- Juan Enriquez
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
The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own. -- Sam Hinton
...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit. -- Mira Grant
I'm a big Urban Outfitters girl, and Forever 21 - I don't think labels make fashion. I think it's your own style, what you put together. -- Chelsea Kane
Dancing is my therapy. I also try to meditate every morning and take several two-hour yoga classes a week at my favorite yoga studio, Urban Flow. -- Leila Janah
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
In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship. -- Cory Booker
Quite frankly, the Urban brand organization became too siloed, with too little communication across functional areas. The great creativity that has been the hallmark of our success became stifled. -- Richard Hayne
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
I love clothes! I shop everywhere, but I like Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, Nordstrom, and Neiman Marcus. It's a wide range. I'm from California, and I love the Pasadena Flea Market. -- Keke Palmer
Congratulations to Ohio State, your new college football champions. Coach Urban Meyer may be the greatest football coach of all time. Don't confuse him with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. That's urban quagmire. -- David Letterman
Repositioning a brand is never easy and rarely without pain. I believe the Urban brand is making the necessary changes that will allow it to more fully engage its traditional customer and return to solid profitability. -- Richard Hayne
My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that. -- Nate Ruess
Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap. -- Amy Lee
I love country; I'm gonna do a country solo album at one point just 'cause. I'm a big fan of Keith Urban, Trace Adkins, Rascal Flatts, even though that's more pop. I grew up on country. -- Tony Oller
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
I did the co-writing thing all through the '90s and I got one hit out of it - a Keith Urban song called 'But For The Grace Of God' - but then I got burnt out. -- Jane Wiedlin
If you look at the world today, there are as many solutions as there are problems. I think that is a big part of creativity. That's why I started Urban Zen. Because I wanted to dress and address people. -- Donna Karan
After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions. -- Cory Booker
I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves. -- Moshe Safdie
Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It's pretty twee, but I adore it. I've been trying to come up with an Urban Fantasy comic ever since I'd read the Nancy Collins 'Sonja Blue' series years ago. -- Ted Naifeh
Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security. -- Li Keqiang
... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I love jeans and T-shirts, but for red carpets, I like Oscar de la Renta, who is timeless. Marchesa celebrates the female form in an ethereal way. Donna Karan does an Urban Zen collection, which is eco-friendly. I love socially conscious fashion. -- Serinda Swan
I did Urban Zen for myself, to make clothes for me and my friends, a similar philosophy to when I started Donna Karan. Except this time I hope it will stay that way so that I will be able to support young designers and mentor them. -- Donna Karan
Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society. -- Ted Naifeh
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
It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity. -- Vint Cerf
I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations. -- Justin Timberlake
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. -- Renzo Piano
Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture. -- Arthur Erickson
Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself from it with your own soundscape. -- Douglas Rushkoff
There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents. -- Preston Manning
Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind. -- Cam Newton
I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I admire immensely. When I see an animal that thrives in the garbage, I feel relief; in our urban environment, other animals are dying out. -- Isabella Rossellini
I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see it as, you know, not having many other options. I think it comes down to money and needing to survive. -- Cutter Hodierne
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. -- Sherman Alexie
All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments. -- Geoff Mulgan
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity. -- Richard Rogers
There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world, just like I did with the Greeks and 'Percy Jackson.' I'll give the books an urban setting and have young people interacting with the Norse gods. -- Rick Riordan
Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian. -- Carlo Ratti
The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation. -- Leslie Jamison
Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns. -- Fergie
I'm going to be a fashion icon in a minute. I'm not going to do it in a corny manner. I have a voice that speaks for a whole other market - not just black people, but high fashion urban people. I mix street wear with high fashion. It's never been seen before. -- ASAP Rocky
When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk around, not a lot of parks. I sort of pictured Manhattan almost, where, besides Central Park, it's all city and big buildings. But now that I'm here, you see people pushing strollers, people hanging out in the park. -- Erin Cummings
A lot of rappers say 'I'm talking about stuff that goes on, what I grew up in, that I know about.' And these journalists say, 'Yeah, but you're making 80 million dollars, that stuff's not about you.' Look how long he's been making 80 million. He grew up poor in an urban city and the things he's experienced and knows. -- Stuart Scott
I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well. -- Magic Johnson
I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me. -- Martin Scorsese
I'm not an urban person. -- David Guterson
Canada can be tough for urban music. -- Melanie Fiona
An urban novelist never minds a little decay. -- Jane Smiley
Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well. -- Fergus Henderson
33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space. -- Donald Shoup
Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now. -- Robin Gibb
EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context -- Kengo Kuma
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect. -- Michael Porter
I'm an urban person who loves living in the country. -- Dani Shapiro
I have a low taste for urban fantasy and paranormal romance. -- Charles Stross
Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation. -- Carlos Ghosn
I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore. -- Eric Kripke
I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life. -- William Atherton
Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities. -- Allan Jacobs
Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good. -- Janine di Giovanni
I've worked on the urban agenda all my life. All. My. Life. -- Andrew Cuomo
America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces -- Cathleen McGuigan
For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile. -- Rupert Brooke
In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power. -- Meles Zenawi
In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past. -- Mark Batterson
I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan. -- George Osborne

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