Cities Never Flourish Alone. They Have To

In Trading With Each Other Cities Can't Be In Too Different Stages Of Development, And They Can't Copy One Another. Backward Cities, Or Younger Cities, Or Newly Forming Cities In Supply Regions, Have To Develop To A Great Extent On One Another's Shoulders. This Is One Of The Terrible Things About Empires. Empires Want Them Only To Trade With The Empire, Which Doesn't Help Them At All. It's Just A Way Of Exploiting Them.

Some Of The Large [municipalities] In Quebec Can Contain Within Them Most Of The Answers To Their Own Practical Problems. And So Lots Of Different Possibilities For Doing Things In A Practical And Different Way Become Available.

There Is No Logic That Can Be Superimposed On The City; People Make It, And It Is To Them, Not Buildings, That We Must Fit Our Plans.

This Is What A City Is, Bits And Pieces That Supplement Each Other And Support Each Other.

What If We Fail To Stop The Erosion Of Cities By Automobiles? ... In That Case America Will Hardly Need To Ponder A Mystery That Has Troubled Men For Millennia. What Is The Purpose Of Life? For Us, The Answer Will Be Clear, Established And For All Practical Purposes Indisputable. The Purpose Of Life Is To Produce And Consume Automobiles.