We Expect Too Much Of New #‎

I Think That May Be The Biggest Difference Between Americans And People Elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians Know That There Are Places Just As Real As Canada. It's A Self-centeredness That's A Very Strange Thing.

Cities Need Old Buildings So Badly It Is Probably Impossible For Vigorous Streets And Districts To Grow Without Them.... For Really New Ideas Of Any Kind--no Matter How Ultimately Profitable Or Otherwise Successful Some Of Them Might Prove To Be--there Is No Leeway For Such Chancy Trial, Error And Experimentation In The High-overhead Economy Of New Construction. Old Ideas Can Sometimes Use New Buildings. New Ideas Must Use Old Buildings.

The Point Of Cities Is Multiplicity Of Choice.

Some Of The Large [municipalities] In Quebec Can Contain Within Them Most Of The Answers To Their Own Practical Problems. And So Lots Of Different Possibilities For Doing Things In A Practical And Different Way Become Available.

Maybe Part Of My Animus Against The English Is The Way They Have Always Treated The Irish And They Way They Still Think About The Irish.