The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves.

...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

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

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.