While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.

Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.

[If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would become the second level.

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities: a city cannot be a work of art.

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