Model City Quotes

#1. Singapore is what your city could become if everyone obeyed the rules, did their jobs diligently, and just shut up. When your city gets to be this paragon of efficiency and discipline, would you still want to live there? Singapore is a model city, which is terrific if you happen to be a model human.

Jessica Zafra

#2. The overwhelming success of San Antonio B-Cycle has proven that San Antonio is a model city for bike-sharing, and as we work toward creating a fitter city, the bike-share program encourages a more active and healthy lifestyle.

Julian Castro

#3. In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

Gigi Hadid

#4. The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.

Stanley Ho

#5. New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

Lewis Mumford

#6. The city, thinks Marie-Laure, is slowly being remade into the model upstairs. Streets sucked empty one by one.

Anthony Doerr

#7. In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

Thomas Menino

#8. A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

Will Wright

#9. I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

Jack Dorsey

#10. No one church model or theological tradition - can reach an entire city. Reaching

Timothy Keller

#11. I've always lived out of a suitcase. I was in a new city every three months. When I was a model, I traveled the world, and as an actor you're traveling from movie set to movie set. So I've never been in one place long enough for anything super-bad to happen.

Krysten Ritter

#12. I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar, as a great scale model: the city as an avatar of itself.

Olivo Barbieri

#13. Lvov is a city like New York City in America. New York City, in truth, was designed on the model of Lvov.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. Clarice, the glorious city, has a tormented history. Several times it decayed, then burgeoned again, always keeping the first Clarice as an unparalleled model of every splendor, compared to which the city's present state can only cause more sighs at every fading of the stars.

Italo Calvino

#15. In every age someone, looking at Fedora as it was, imagined a way of making it the ideal city, but while he constructed his miniature model, Fedora was already no longer the same as before, and what had been until yesterday a possible future became only a toy in a glass globe.

Italo Calvino

#16. I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

Saffron Burrows

#17. I started as a model in Mexico - I was traveling, but my base was in Mexico City. And then I studied acting for three years.

Stephanie Sigman