Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.

Societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there.

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

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.

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

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.