The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of the shopping center [as] a valid kind of downtown. That's taken over. It's very hard for architects of this generation even to think in terms of a downtown or a center that is owned by all different people, with different ideas.

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

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

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. My new hypothesis shows why. But also in trading with each other they can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.