Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.

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

In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.