You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a natural, continuing flow of life and use.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if they were the same kind of creature, with the same kinds of possibilities.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

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

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

I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.