Erosion Of Cities Or Attrition Of Automobiles?

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

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.

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.

My Mother Used To Say When We Were Children, 'when A Boy Gets A Stick In His Hand, His Brains Run Out The Other End Of It.' Power Is A Stick In The Hand, And I Have Never Heard Of Anybody Who Wielded A Very Big Stick Of Power Whose Brains Did Not Run Out The Other End. As A Nation, Our Brains Are Running Out The Other End Of Our Power Right Now.

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