I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.

I am ambivalent about London because I am so ambivalent about England in general.

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

In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

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.

Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become possible, because they would have more authority. They would have the same authority as a province now.