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

Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.

People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities - from anything but cities themselves.