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

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans, probably the world's champion sentimentalizers about nature, are at one and the same time probably the world's most voracious and disrespectful destroyers of wild and rural countryside.

Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

We expect too much of new #‎ buildings , and too little of ourselves.