(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans, probably the world's champion sentimentalizers about nature, are at one and the same time probably the world's most voracious and disrespectful destroyers of wild and rural countryside.

The Victorian house and lots of other buildings weren't oppressive in themselves. They were often very airy and gingerbready and fancy. But they were associated with all this [Victorian] stuffiness.

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

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.