Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.

There's something really interesting about current urbanism: the only model is the universal model, and there is increasingly incapacity to consider the virtues and the qualities that are there, and then to build on them. The only thing is complete transformation.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.