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.

One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if they were the same kind of creature, with the same kinds of possibilities.

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

We've got a [Canadian] prime minister who seems to be intent on destroying our health system and education system. But I have gotten a thicker skin. I can get angry about these things without feeling like vomiting, if you know what I mean.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.