You don't get new products and services out of sameness.

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.

Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.

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

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.

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

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.