I am not any hate-America person. I really came here for positive reasons.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

You don't get new products and services out of sameness.

I think that part of the growing popularity of the New Urbanism is not simply because it is so rational, and not simply because people care so much about community or even understand it, or the relation of sprawl to the ruination of the natural world. But they just don't like what is around. And they will be ruthless with it.

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

New ideas often need old buildings.