The Victorian house and lots of other buildings weren't oppressive in themselves. They were often very airy and gingerbready and fancy. But they were associated with all this [Victorian] stuffiness.

Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.

I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have.