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

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

In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.

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

The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of the shopping center [as] a valid kind of downtown. That's taken over. It's very hard for architects of this generation even to think in terms of a downtown or a center that is owned by all different people, with different ideas.

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

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