We Expect Too Much Of

The Trouble With Paternalists Is That They Want To Make Impossibly Profound Changes, And They Choose Impossibly Superficial Means For Doing So.

Being Human Is Itself Difficult, And Therefore All Kinds Of Settlements (except Dream Cities) Have Problems. Big Cities Have Difficulties In Abundance, Because They Have People In Abundance.

I Don't Think Of The New Urbanism As An Economic Or Political Train Wreck. I Think Of It As One Of These Great Generational Upheavals That's Coming.

Some Of The Large [municipalities] In Quebec Can Contain Within Them Most Of The Answers To Their Own Practical Problems. And So Lots Of Different Possibilities For Doing Things In A Practical And Different Way Become Available.

The Ballet Of The Good City Sidewalk Never Repeats Itself From Place To Place, And In Any One Place Is Always Replete With New Improvisations.