[If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would become the second level.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

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

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities - from anything but cities themselves.