The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of Africa, where tourists are warned to leave their cars under no circumstances until they reach a lodge. It is also the technique practiced in Los Angeles.

I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

We expect too much of new #‎ buildings , and too little of ourselves.

I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.