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.

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I urge Torontonians to close down this dangerous Trojan horse and get on with planning constructive and delightful ways of using our magnificent lakeside assets.

New ideas must use old buildings