We expect too much of new #‎ buildings , and too little of ourselves.

I am ambivalent about London because I am so ambivalent about England in general.

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

New ideas often need old buildings.

It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.

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