There Are Still An Awful Lot Of

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.

Americans Have Got It So Dinged Into Them That They Are The Most Fortunate People On Earth, And That The Rest Of The World - The Sooner It Copies What America Is Like, The Better.

Power Is Supposed To Be So Corrupt. I Don't Think It's So Much Corrupt, In The Usual Sense Of The Word, As Stupid And Unrealistic. The More Power A Person Has, The Further He Gets From Reality.

Unfortunately [rené] Lévesque Had So Little Self Confidence In Quebec And In The People Themselves, That He Fell For That And, Yes, He'd Say, You Know, It Might Be Ruinous For Us Economically.

Dull, Inert Cities, It Is True, Do Contain The Seeds Of Their Own Destruction And Little Else. But Lively, Diverse, Intense Cities Contain The Seeds Of Their Own Regeneration, With Energy Enough To Carry Over For Problems And Needs Outside Themselves.