Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. This is a lesson no one learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibility to you take a modicum of responsibility for you.

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

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

Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I urge Torontonians to close down this dangerous Trojan horse and get on with planning constructive and delightful ways of using our magnificent lakeside assets.

Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.