Erosion Of Cities Or Attrition Of Automobiles?

Dull, Inert Cities, It Is True, Do Contain The Seeds Of Their Own Destruction And Little Else. But Lively, Diverse, Intense Cities Contain The Seeds Of Their Own Regeneration, With Energy Enough To Carry Over For Problems And Needs Outside Themselves.

Nothing Is So Clear In History That Is It Happens For Any One Thing. It Seems That A Lot Of Things Come Together To Make Great Changes.

Virtually All Ideologues, Of Any Variety, Are Fearful And Insecure, Which Is Why They Are Drawn To Ideologies That Promise Prefabricated Answers For All Circumstances.

Traffic Congestion Is Caused By Vehicles, Not By People In Themselves.

Neighborhoods Built Up All At Once Change Little Physically Over The Years As A Rule...[residents] Regret That The Neighborhood Has Changed. Yet The Fact Is, Physically It Has Changed Remarkably Little. People's Feelings About It, Rather, Have Changed. The Neighborhood Shows A Strange Inability To Update Itself, Enliven Itself, Repair Itself, Or To Be Sought After, Out Of Choice, By A New Generation. It Is Dead. Actually It Was Dead From Birth, But Nobody Noticed This Much Until The Corpse Began To Smell.