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.

...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

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

Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?

Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.