Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

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

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.

You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.