This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.

Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America.

Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.

Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is, physically it has changed remarkably little. People's feelings about it, rather, have changed. The neighborhood shows a strange inability to update itself, enliven itself, repair itself, or to be sought after, out of choice, by a new generation. It is dead. Actually it was dead from birth, but nobody noticed this much until the corpse began to smell.

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