Nick Wooster Quotes

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

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

Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.

I lived in Tokyo for four months. I've heard Tokyo was modeled after New York City, so I was ready for the subways and all the people, but it's a little overwhelming at times. Not to mention, I'm paying twice as much for my apartment here than I was paying in L.A., and my apartment in L.A. is about four times the size! But it's such a cool city.

Brussels is sort of a mini London in the sense that if you think about putting a football pitch in London, people laugh at you. There is just no space.

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.

I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.

I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

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.

Cities are created by and for traffic.

If, instead of hiring half-baked revolutionary planners to fill our college undergraduates with ingenious schemes to disperse populations, split up big cities into little ones, go underground or into distant places to escape bombs and congestion, abandon large urban areas in favor of roadside villages, we were to publish reliable, simply written, common-sense information to control the building boom, what a country this would be!

This rapid transit underground road is necessary for the accommodation and comfort of new York City residents.

People want subways, folks... subways, subways. They don't want these damn streetcars blocking up our city!