One Of Our Troubles Is That We

I Don't Think Of The New Urbanism As An Economic Or Political Train Wreck. I Think Of It As One Of These Great Generational Upheavals That's Coming.

Virtually All Ideologues, Of Any Variety, Are Fearful And Insecure, Which Is Why They Are Drawn To Ideologies That Promise Prefabricated Answers For All Circumstances.

Some Of The Large [municipalities] In Quebec Can Contain Within Them Most Of The Answers To Their Own Practical Problems. And So Lots Of Different Possibilities For Doing Things In A Practical And Different Way Become Available.

Reactions [on My 1979 Massey Lectures] Were From Anglophones. I'm One. But I'm Terrible At French. In Fact, There Was Practically No Reaction.

Poverty Has No Causes. Only Prosperity Has Causes. Analogically, Heat Is A Result Of Active Processes; It Has Causes. But Cold Is Not The Result Of Any Processes; It Is Only The Absence Of Heat. Just So, The Great Cold Of Poverty And Economic Stagnation Is Merely The Absence Of Economic Development.