Traffic Congestion Is Caused By Vehicles, Not

When We Deal With Cities We Are Dealing With Life At Its Most Complex And Intense. Because This Is So, There Is A Basic Esthetic Limitation On What Can Be Done With Cities: A City Cannot Be A Work Of Art.

But Look What We Have Built Low-income Projects That Become Worse Centers Of Delinquency, Vandalism And General Social Hopelessness Than The Slums They Were Supposed To Replace. Cultural Centers That Are Unable To Support A Good Bookstore. Civic Centers That Are Avoided By Everyone But Bums. Promenades That Go From No Place To Nowhere And Have No Promenaders. Expressways That Eviscerate Great Cities. This Is Not The Rebuilding Of Cities. This Is The Sacking Of Cities.

I Have Learned Yet Again (this Has Been Going On All My Life) What Folly It Is To Take Any Thing For Granted Without Examining It Skeptically.

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.

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