New Ideas Often Need Old Buildings.

The Entrepreneurial Investors Of The Time Just Want To Repeat Themselves Indefinitely And Don't Know When To Stop. You Can't Do That. And So Finally The Housing Boom, Or The Auto Boom, Or Whatever It Is That's Been Carrying Things Along, Runs Out Of Customers.

When We Deal With Cities We Are Dealing With Life At Its Most Complex And Intense. Planners Are Guided By Principles Derived From The Behaviour And Appearance Of Suburbs, Tuberculosis Sanatoria, Fairs And Imaginary Dream Cities - From Anything But Cities Themselves.

There Is A Quality Even Meaner Than Outright Ugliness Or Disorder, And This Meaner Quality Is The Dishonest Mask Of Pretended Order, Achieved By Ignoring Or Suppressing The Real Order That Is Struggling To Exist And To Be Served.

Detroit Is Largely Composed, Today, Of Seemingly Endless Square Miles Of Low-density Failure.

It Is Immoral For Powerless People To Accept This Powerlessness. They May Not Succeed In Getting Power But They Can Fight For It, And If Enough Fight For It, It Makes It Very Difficult For The People With The Big Sticks.