The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a natural, continuing flow of life and use.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

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

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

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