In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.

New ideas often need old buildings.

Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.

The best thing is not to think about [separatism]. [People in Alberta] don't even want to engage in talking pros and cons and why people feel this way.

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

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

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.