[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

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

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

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

My husband was a hospital architect and he was working on some hospitals in Alberta, and I told him to try to find out what they thought about separatism. He would come back on weekends. He said "well, I think I found out how they feel about separatism. I brought it up at lunch in the cafeteria, and everybody at the table was silent and then somebody said 'Let's change the subject'."