Urban Hub Quotes

I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.

Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact as if on some sort of comfortable global platform.

All roads lead to Johannesburg.

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education, where people wear three-piece suits and dark socks, often simultaneously.

New York seems to be absolutely filled with brilliant people.

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.