There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

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

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.