Cities Never Flourish Alone. They Have To

The Notion - And I Tell You This One Even Worries Me That It Extends Into New Urbanism - The Notion Of The Shopping Center [as] A Valid Kind Of Downtown. That's Taken Over. It's Very Hard For Architects Of This Generation Even To Think In Terms Of A Downtown Or A Center That Is Owned By All Different People, With Different Ideas.

Throughout The World Dark Ages Have Scrawled Finis To Successions Of Cultures Receding Far Into The Past.

Cities Are An Immense Laboratory Of Trial And Error, Failure And Success, In City Building And City Design.

Redundancy Is Expensive But Indispensable.

The More Successfully A City Mingles Everyday Diversity Of Uses And Users In Its Everyday Streets, The More Successfully, Casually (and Economically) Its People Thereby Enliven And Support Well-located Parks That Can Thus Give Back Grace And Delight To Their Neighborhoods Instead Of Vacuity.