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.

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

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.

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

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

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

People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.