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New Ideas Must Use Old Buildings

I Think That Part Of The Growing Popularity Of The New Urbanism Is Not Simply Because It Is So Rational, And Not Simply Because People Care So Much About Community Or Even Understand It, Or The Relation Of Sprawl To The Ruination Of The Natural World. But They Just Don't Like What Is Around. And They Will Be Ruthless With It.

It May Be That We Have Become So Feckless As A People That We No Longer Care How Things Work But Only The Kind Of Quick, Easy Outer Impression That They Get.

I Was So Grateful To Be Independent Of The Academic Establishment. I Thought, How Awful It Would Be To Have My Future Hinge On Such People And Such Decisions.

Neighborhood Is A Word That Has Come To Sound Like A Valentine. As A Sentimental Concept, 'neighborhood' Is Harmful To City Planning. It Leads To Attempts At Warping City Life Into Imitations Of Town Or Suburban Life. Sentimentality Plays With Sweet Intentions In Place Of Good Sense.