City Diversity Represents Accident And

Almost Nobody Travels Willingly From Sameness To Sameness And Repetition To Repetition, Even If The Physical Effort Required Is Trivial.

Everybody's Got A Worldview, Whether They Know They Have It Or They Don't. They Might Even Get It When They Are Little Tiny Kids. Suppose They Get It When They Are In College, Which Is Often The Case, Or In High School, Whatever. Everything They Learn After That Or Every Thing They See After That, They Fit It Into That Worldview. And They Are Making Coherence Of What's Good, What's Bad, What Will Work, What Won't Work, What's Noble, What's Ignoble, And So On... All Through This Filter.

The Point Of Cities Is Multiplicity Of Choice.

There Are Fashions In Building. Behind The Fashions Lie Economic And Technological Reasons, And These Fashions Exclude All But A Few Genuinely Different Possibilities In City Dwelling Construction At Any One Time.

Innovating Economies Expand And Develop. Economies That Do Not Add New Kinds Of Goods And Services, But Continue Only To Repeat Old Work, Do Not Expand Much Nor Do They, By Definition, Develop.