The Great City Is The Best Organ

It Has Not Been For Nothing That The Word Has Remained Man's Principal Toy And Tool: Without The Meanings And Values It Sustains, All Man's Other Tools Would Be Worthless.

The Right To Have Access To Every Building In The City By Private Motorcar In An Age When Everyone Possesses Such A Vehicle Is Actually The Right To Destroy The City.

Today, The Degradation Of The Inner Life Is Symbolized By The Fact That The Only Place Sacred From Interruption Is The Private Toilet.

Organic Planning Does Not Begin With A Preconceived Goal; It Moves From Need To Need, From Opportunity To Opportunity, In A Series Of Adaptations That Themselves Become Increasingly Coherent And Purposeful, So That They Generate A Complex Final Design, Hardly Less Unified Than A Pre-formed Geometric Pattern.

Traditionalists Are Pessimists About The Future And Optimists About The Past.