Geoffrey West Quotes

You have nothing coming into a major metropolitan area to relocate or locate your business and employees. And you can go across the country and you'll see that.

Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.

I grew up in Shanghai, a big urban city.

Young people are choosing cities before the country - they have their own ranking.

I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, knows that it's basically a love-hate relationship, you might say. Even though I still think it's the greatest city in the world and I wouldn't live anywhere else, there're still things about it one doesn't like. The love far outweighs the negative.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.

I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn't want to live there.

I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places.

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it is.

It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.

Chicago was a good place for me. Maybe New York will be better.

Living in London is very different to living in a little town in Germany.

I really tried to avoid living in L.A. for as long as I can.

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.

It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.

Living in areas with a high population density does not need to be synonymous with overcrowding. Manhattan has an extremely dense population and is considered by many to be a highly desirable place to live.

Living in New York, no big deal. I am loving New York - there is something about the energy.