(the Psuedoscience Of Planning Seems Almost Neurotic

The Point Of Cities Is Multiplicity Of Choice.

What If We Fail To Stop The Erosion Of Cities By Automobiles? ... In That Case America Will Hardly Need To Ponder A Mystery That Has Troubled Men For Millennia. What Is The Purpose Of Life? For Us, The Answer Will Be Clear, Established And For All Practical Purposes Indisputable. The Purpose Of Life Is To Produce And Consume Automobiles.

Cities Never Flourish Alone. They Have To Be Trading With Other Cities.

You Can't Rely On Bringing People Downtown, You Have To Put Them There.

A Border--the Perimeter Of A Single Massive Or Stretched-out Use Of Territory--forms The Edge Of An Area Of 'ordinary' City. Often Borders Are Thought Of As Passive Objects, Or Matter-of-factly Just As Edges. However, A Border Exerts An Active Influence.