Today Barbarism Has Taken Over

That The Sight Of People Attracts Still Other People, Is Something That City Planners And City Architectural Designers Seem To Find Incomprehensible. They Operate On The Premise That City People Seek The Sight Of Emptiness, Obvious Order And Quiet. Nothing Could Be Less True. The Presences Of Great Numbers Of People Gathered Together In Cities Should Not Only Be Frankly Accepted As A Physical Fact... They Should Also Be Enjoyed As An Asset And Their Presence Celebrated.

By Its Nature, The Metropolis Provides What Otherwise Could Be Given Only By Traveling; Namely, The Strange.

Automobiles Are Often Conveniently Tagged As The Villains Responsible For The Ills Of Cities And The Disappointments And Futilities Of City Planning. But The Destructive Effect Of Automobiles Are Much Less A Cause Than A Symptom Of Our Incompetence At City Building.

There Is No Logic That Can Be Superimposed On The City; People Make It, And It Is To Them, Not Buildings, That We Must Fit Our Plans.

Cities Have The Capability Of Providing Something For Everybody, Only Because, And Only When, They Are Created By Everybody.