Cynthia Heimel Quotes

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.

That's what I love about New York. So many people crowded together, pushing against one another. And that's what I hate about New York. So many people crowded together, pushing against one another.

Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

It would be a nice place if you took all the people out of the city.

What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural areas. I was also shocked at the poverty and at the living conditions.

I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census. Something like ten thousand people lived in one city block.

I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.

I don't like concrete jungles.

I never particularly liked it in New York City.

If you ask people why they move to the city, they always give the same reasons. They've come to get a job or follow their friends or to be at the center of a scene. That's why we pay the high rent. Cities are all about the people, not the infrastructure.

More than a billion people in the world live in slums today, roughly one out of every three inhabitants of cities.

Thicken Population.

The United States was born in the country and has moved to the city.

With increased growth in the U.S. population, especially in urban areas, transport bottlenecks will only become more frequent and severe.

Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.

Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that - a myth.

See, New York is over the hill. It's swallowed up in its own garbage. And the people - I can't stand the people.

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.