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

Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.

I don't think of the New Urbanism as an economic or political train wreck. I think of it as one of these great generational upheavals that's coming.

A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

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.

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.