People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

[ René Lévesque] didn't understand why things do collapse. It's usually a very banal reason why things do collapse. It's not a grand reason, why they collapse economically, at least in the West.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.