City Diversity Represents Accident And Chaos.

It May Be That We Have Become So Feckless As A People That We No Longer Care How Things Do Work, But Only What Kind Of Quick, Easy Outer Impression They Give. If So, There Is Little Hope For Our Cities Or Probably For Much Else In Our Society. But I Do Not Think This Is So.

Writing, Printing, And The Internet Give A False Sense Of Security About The Permanence Of Culture.

The Ballet Of The Good City Sidewalk Never Repeats Itself From Place To Place, And In Any One Place Is Always Replete With New Improvisations.

To Science, Not Even The Bark Of A Tree Or A Drop Of Pond Water Is Dull Or A Handful Of Dirt Banal. They All Arouse Awe And Wonder.

Just The Way In Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, And Stockholm, And Frankfurt, Possibly And Berlin, Certainly, All Had Important Roles, Because Of Independence. Because They Were Depending On Themselves.