Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.