Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

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

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

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

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.