We Expect Too Much Of

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.

I Think It Is Fatal To Specialize. And All Kinds Of Things Show Us That And That The More Diverse We Are In What We Can Do, The Better.

[ René Lévesque] Didn't Understand Why Things Do Collapse. It's Usually A Very Banal Reason Why Things Do Collapse. It's Not A Grand Reason, Why They Collapse Economically, At Least In The West.

The Ballet Of The Good City Sidewalk Never Repeats Itself From Place To Place, And In Any One Place Is Always Replete With New Improvisations.

It Is Hopeless To Try To Convert Some Borders Into Seams.