By the end of the book, it is quite different than the way you thought it would be when you started the book - both in form and what it contains and what you think. Well, you tipped in a lot and you digested a lot - it wasn't pre-digested in your view. And it changed what you thought and how you see things.

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

Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

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

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

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.