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.

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. My new hypothesis shows why. But also in trading with each other they can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another.

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

Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America.

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.