You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

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.

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

Americans have got it so dinged into them that they are the most fortunate people on Earth, and that the rest of the world - the sooner it copies what America is like, the better.

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.

[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.