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I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism. -- Leon Krier
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example. -- Ban Ki-moon
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker. -- Armand Assante
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales. -- Douglas Brinkley
Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea. -- Virginia Postrel
Many years in New York has made me urban, and I won't eat my chicken because I met him personally! -- Isabella Rossellini
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one. -- Sxip Shirey
We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community. -- Emeril Lagasse
A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life. -- Richard Rogers
We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage. -- Adolph Green
I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds to fighting terrorism than any other municipality. -- Jose Serrano
I grew up in Harlem in New York, very rough, urban environment, and so what I found is that, if I can have kids travel to different places, countries, areas, it can expand their minds. -- Ving Rhames
Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state. -- Robert Pinsky
The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models. -- Rem Koolhaas
I invite you all to visit our new Harold Square or Space 98 stores in New York. I think you'll agree with me that these stores have a distinct Urban Outfitters personality, with fresh, exciting product and an experience that resonates with the 18 to 28 year old urban-dwelling customer. -- Richard Hayne
The Dallas model, prominent in the South and Southwest, sees a growing population as a sign of urban health. Cities liberally permit housing construction to accommodate new residents. The Los Angeles model, common on the West Coast and in the Northeast Corridor, discourages growth by limiting new housing. -- Virginia Postrel
It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's. -- Karl Urban
After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed. -- Fay Godwin
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

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