I Don't Think My Work

In Great Cities, Spaces As Well As Places Are Designed And Built: Walking, Witnessing, Being In Public, Are As Much Part Of The Design And Purpose As Is Being Inside To Eat, Sleep, Make Shoes Or Love Or Music. The Word Citizen Has To Do With Cities, And The Ideal City Is Organized Around Citizenship -- Around Participation In Public Life.

The Famous Zen Parable About The Master For Whom, Before His Studies, Mountains Were Only Mountains, But During His Studies Mountains Were No Longer Mountains, And Afterward Mountains Were Again Mountains Could Be Interpreted As An Alleory About [the Perpetual Paradox That When One Is Closest To A Destination One Is Also The Farthest).

There Are Disasters That Are Entirely Manmade, But None That Are Entirely Natural.

I Often Think That The Reason Capitalism Hasn't Completely Destroyed Everything Is That A Huge Amount Of Anti-capitalist Endeavor Goes On, From Labors Of Love, Nurture, Friendship, And Barter To Gift Economies And Different Kinds Of Exchanges, Not Just One Alternate Model But A Whole Host Of Other Ways In Which We Engage With Each Other And With The World That Aren't Financial And Debt-based.

We Know Less When We Erroneously Think We Know Than When We Recognize That We Don't.