There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

...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.

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.

poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.

Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?

I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.