People tend to sit where there are places to sit

So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.

What attracts people most, it would appear, is other people.

Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

If you want to seed a place with activity, the first thing to do is to put out food.