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

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

Americans have got it so dinged into them that they are the most fortunate people on Earth, and that the rest of the world - the sooner it copies what America is like, the better.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

I don't think that you can dispose of the constructive and inventive things that America is doing - and say, "Oh we aren't doing anything anymore and we are living off of what the poor Chinese do." It is more complicated than that. There is the example of Detroit which was once a very prosperous and diverse city. And look what happened when it just specialized on automobiles. Look at Manchester when it specialized in those dark satanic mills, when it specialized in textiles. It was supposed to be the city of the future.