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.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

We expect too much of new #‎ buildings , and too little of ourselves.

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.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.