Neglected Areas Quotes

When nobody wants something, that creates an opportunity.

If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.

We have places in America that really have been just forgotten.

The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.

There are certain neighborhoods in America like that - like in Pittsburgh, where I'm from - where people wouldn't think it's even livable for human beings. Those are the areas that I connect with because I come from places like that, and I just think it's interesting how the rest of the world acts like it doesn't exist. But a lot of the best things come from there.

Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.

One thing about Los Angeles is it feels like it's not new. It feels like it's already been built, and it's deteriorating, except for the places they're trying to make nicer. But in general, you drive all through the city, and the city feels like it was new a long time ago.

There was love expressed in the places you usually forget to look.

The site for the school house is generally the most neglected, because [it is] the cheapest, spot in town ...

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.