You Can't Rely On Bringing

Reformers Have Long Observed City People Loitering On Busy Corners, Hanging Around In Candy Stores And Bars And Drinking Soda Popon Stoops, And Have Passed A Judgment, The Gist Of Which Is: "this Is Deplorable! If These People Had Decent Homes And A More Private Or Bosky Outdoor Place, They Wouldn't Be On The Street!" That Judgment Represents A Profound Misunderstanding Of Cities. It Makes No More Sense Than To Drop In At A Testimonial Banquet In A Hotel And Conclude That If These People Had Wives Who Could Cook, They Would Give Their Parties At Home.

It Is Immoral For Powerless People To Accept This Powerlessness. They May Not Succeed In Getting Power But They Can Fight For It, And If Enough Fight For It, It Makes It Very Difficult For The People With The Big Sticks.

The Notion - And I Tell You This One Even Worries Me That It Extends Into New Urbanism - The Notion Of The Shopping Center [as] A Valid Kind Of Downtown. That's Taken Over. It's Very Hard For Architects Of This Generation Even To Think In Terms Of A Downtown Or A Center That Is Owned By All Different People, With Different Ideas.

Cities Never Flourish Alone. They Have To Be Trading With Other Cities.

Modernism Really Started With People Getting Infatuated With The Idea Of "it's The Twentieth Century, Is This Suitable For The Twentieth Century." This Happened Before The First World War And It Wasn't Just The Soldiers. You Can See It Happening If You Read The Bloomsbury Biographies. It Was A Reaction To A Great Extent Against Victorianism. There Was So Much That Was Repressive And Stuffy. Victorian Buildings Were Associated With It, And They Were Regarded As Very Ugly. Even When They Weren't Ugly, People Made Them Ugly. They Were Painted Hideously.