Expanding The Toronto Island Airport Will Undermine

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.

Cities Need Old Buildings So Badly It Is Probably Impossible For Vigorous Streets And Districts To Grow Without Them.... For Really New Ideas Of Any Kind--no Matter How Ultimately Profitable Or Otherwise Successful Some Of Them Might Prove To Be--there Is No Leeway For Such Chancy Trial, Error And Experimentation In The High-overhead Economy Of New Construction. Old Ideas Can Sometimes Use New Buildings. New Ideas Must Use Old Buildings.

Neighborhood Is A Word That Has Come To Sound Like A Valentine. As A Sentimental Concept, 'neighborhood' Is Harmful To City Planning. It Leads To Attempts At Warping City Life Into Imitations Of Town Or Suburban Life. Sentimentality Plays With Sweet Intentions In Place Of Good Sense.

All My Life I Have Been Hearing That The Oil Was Going To Run Out. It Never Happens. They Keep Discovering New Oil Fields. The World Is Apparently Floating In Oil Fields.

Lots Of Things Are Not Possible For Municipalities, Suburbs, Or Collections Of Them Now. They Are Not Possible And They Would Become Possible, Because They Would Have More Authority. They Would Have The Same Authority As A Province Now.