New ideas must use old buildings

One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if they were the same kind of creature, with the same kinds of possibilities.

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

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

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