Here are some quotes related to urban life along with the authors’ names:

“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.” – Marshall McLuhan

“And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.” – Ezra Pound

“Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.” – Dave Reichert

“This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.” – Richard Rogers

“The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes.” – Susan Sontag

“Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.” – Charles Lamb

“The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.” – Irving Babbitt

“The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with regards to the ways in which young people look at resistance culture as a pattern that should be mimicked and admired.” – Kehinde Wiley

“The whole world is covered in graffiti. No one cares. It’s just part of urban noise.” – Ben Eine

“For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate ‘poor’ in our public consciousness with ‘black.’ Terms such as ‘welfare queen’ and ‘culture of poverty’ became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.” – J. D. Vance

“I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you’ve got magic, you’ve got fairies running around, or cryptozoological creatures running around, and I’m pulling very heavily on my background as a folklore major and having done some animation work and all of that, and I’m pulling from the modern fairy tale narrative.” – Seanan McGuire

“Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.” – Bob Newhart

“When I go to work, I don’t want to make depressing, gritty, urban stories that are depressing to watch. I want to give people something to enjoy. When people think I’m a control freak and an ogre – which I am – it’s only because I want my work to be accessible and Everyman, in a way.” – Ricky Gervais

“When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla – a rebel.” – Vivienne Westwood

“Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities – not something that they chose.” – Ingrid Newkirk

“Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.” – Michael Porter

“As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for ‘better’ jobs in the city. We emptied America’s rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories.” – Michael Pollan

“Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it’s about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.” – Li Keqiang

“Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they’ve redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.” – Jesse Jackson

“We are neither anti-urban nor pro-rural. We know there is a gap between urban and rural areas; we are only trying to bridge it.” – H. D. Kumaraswamy