Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.

It turns out that we're actually capable of something other than neoliberalism and actually we're really capable of enjoying ourselves more than we do under neoliberalism. It feels that if neoliberalism is first about privatizing desire and imagination before the economy, then we're in this process of publicizing it again.

Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.