Erosion Of Cities Or Attrition

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.

Why Did I Become A Canadian Citizen? Not Because I Was Rejecting Being A U.s. Citizen. At The Time When I Became A Canadian Citizen, You Couldn't Be A Dual Citizen. Now You Can. So I Had To Be One Or The Other. But The Reason I Became A Canadian Citizen Was Because It Simply Seemed So Abnormal To Me Not To Be Able To Vote.

But Look What We Have Built ... This Is Not The Rebuilding Of Cities. This Is The Sacking Of Cities.

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.

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