Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become possible, because they would have more authority. They would have the same authority as a province now.

Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.

People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.

People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

I think that part of the growing popularity of the New Urbanism is not simply because it is so rational, and not simply because people care so much about community or even understand it, or the relation of sprawl to the ruination of the natural world. But they just don't like what is around. And they will be ruthless with it.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.