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

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

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.

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

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

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

A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.