Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.

It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is formed by political action, via government. That is all true. But we have no such consensus, and no one in government or politics these days has the will or the force of personality or perhaps even the understanding of the situation to get on with job of forming a consensus supporting rail.

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

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

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

I believe our techno-zealotry will be moderated by sheer circumstance. We will do what reality compels us to do, not necessarily what our fantasies propose.

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.