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.

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

[ 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.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

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

I am ambivalent about London because I am so ambivalent about England in general.