Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have.

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

In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.

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.

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.