Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.