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

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

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.

Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

I am not any hate-America person. I really came here for positive reasons.

I still have a lot of family in America. I still have a lot of friends there. There is a lot that I admire there very much. When I find America getting too much criticized outside America, I want to tell them how many things are good about it.