This Is What A City

My Husband Was A Hospital Architect And He Was Working On Some Hospitals In Alberta, And I Told Him To Try To Find Out What They Thought About Separatism. He Would Come Back On Weekends. He Said "well, I Think I Found Out How They Feel About Separatism. I Brought It Up At Lunch In The Cafeteria, And Everybody At The Table Was Silent And Then Somebody Said 'let's Change The Subject'."

It May Be That We Have Become So Feckless As A People That We No Longer Care How Things Do Work, But Only What Kind Of Quick, Easy Outer Impression They Give. If So, There Is Little Hope For Our Cities Or Probably For Much Else In Our Society. But I Do Not Think This Is So.

(the Psuedoscience Of Planning Seems Almost Neurotic In Its Determination To Imitate Empiric Failure And Ignore Empiric Success.)

Throughout The World Dark Ages Have Scrawled Finis To Successions Of Cultures Receding Far Into The Past.

[cities] Are Not Like Suburbs, Only Denser. They Differ From Towns And Suburbs In Basic Ways, And One Of These Is That Cities Are, By Definition, Full Of Strangers.