There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

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.

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)