Redundancy Is Expensive But Indispensable.

Almost Nobody Travels Willingly From Sameness To Sameness And Repetition To Repetition, Even If The Physical Effort Required Is Trivial.

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

I Think That Intelligent People To A Great Extent Are Captives Of Their Time Or Place.

[cities] Are Not Like Suburbs, Only Denser. They Differ From Towns And Suburbs In Basic Ways, And One Of These Is That Cities Are, By Definition, Full Of Strangers.

The First Fundamental Of Successful City Life: People Must Take A Modicum Of Responsibility For Each Other Even If They Have No Ties To Each Other. This Is A Lesson No One Learns By Being Told. It Is Learned From The Experience Of Having Other People Without Ties Of Kinship Or Close Friendship Or Formal Responsibility To You Take A Modicum Of Responsibility For You.