Urban Vitality Quotes

Citizens are the energy of Seoul.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always the best and the strongest of cities, and our people were vital to the teeth. Knock them down eight times and they would get up with that look in the eye which suggests the fight has barely begun.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

Moscow has an energy. Which is important. The city and the people all have an energy. It's quite different from what everybody knows in Los Angeles, but it has an energy. People have an energy.

New York feels vibrant... It feels electric to walk the streets at night.

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'

It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.

In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

Whatever New York loses, if you go to other cities around the world, or around the country, New York still has a kind of energy level you find nowhere else. Paris doesn't have it, London doesn't have it, San Francisco, a great city, doesn't have it.

Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.

I come from the city of New Orleans where it's live and vibrant.

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

The need to express yourself in Los Angeles makes the city so vibrant. If I lived here, it would be lovely to be in a cool new high-rise looking out over a city that is exploding.

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove - there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

On my Instagram, I'm always keeping a record of things being pulled down in Soho and shutters being closed. Every city - and London more than anywhere - has got to be a vibrant mix of all different things. We can't allow it to become a monoculture.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.