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

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

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.

Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become possible, because they would have more authority. They would have the same authority as a province now.

Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.

Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about the Irish.