The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

Building places that are worth living in and worth caring about require a certain attention to detail, and of a particular kind of detail that we have forgotten how to design and assemble. And that involves the relationship of the buildings to each other, the relationship of the buildings to the public space, which in America, comes mostly in the form of the street. Because it's only the exceptional places in America that have the village square or the New England green. You know. The street is mostly the public realm of America. And we have to design these things so that they reward us.

Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.

I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.

We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed usefulness and monetary value in an energy-scarce economy.

I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.