But Look What We Have

I Think That Part Of The Growing Popularity Of The New Urbanism Is Not Simply Because It Is So Rational, And Not Simply Because People Care So Much About Community Or Even Understand It, Or The Relation Of Sprawl To The Ruination Of The Natural World. But They Just Don't Like What Is Around. And They Will Be Ruthless With It.

Not Tv Or Illegal Drugs But The Automobile Has Been The Chief Destroyer Of American Communities.

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.

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.

The Point Of Cities Is Multiplicity Of Choice.