Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important and strategic.

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

We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore because they haven't been doing it for, you know, the better part of the century.

In my view, suburbia in general has very poor prospects. I think it will only become devalued and probably more dangerous. It's chief characteristic was that it represented a living arrangement with no future - and that future is now here.

The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things