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

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields. The world is apparently floating in oil fields.

The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of the shopping center [as] a valid kind of downtown. That's taken over. It's very hard for architects of this generation even to think in terms of a downtown or a center that is owned by all different people, with different ideas.

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.

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