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.

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

[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.

Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?

New ideas often need old buildings.

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

I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.