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

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about the Irish.

The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of Africa, where tourists are warned to leave their cars under no circumstances until they reach a lodge. It is also the technique practiced in Los Angeles.

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?

Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.