I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.

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

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other end of it.' Power is a stick in the hand, and I have never heard of anybody who wielded a very big stick of power whose brains did not run out the other end. As a nation, our brains are running out the other end of our power right now.

I am not any hate-America person. I really came here for positive reasons.

Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.