...frequent Streets And Short Blocks Are Valuable

Cities Need Old Buildings So Badly It Is Probably Impossible For Vigorous Streets And Districts To Grow Without Them.... For Really New Ideas Of Any Kind--no Matter How Ultimately Profitable Or Otherwise Successful Some Of Them Might Prove To Be--there Is No Leeway For Such Chancy Trial, Error And Experimentation In The High-overhead Economy Of New Construction. Old Ideas Can Sometimes Use New Buildings. New Ideas Must Use Old Buildings.

Cities Never Flourish Alone. They Have To Be Trading With Other Cities. My New Hypothesis Shows Why. But Also In Trading With Each Other They Can't Be In Too Different Stages Of Development, And They Can't Copy One Another.

Artists, Whatever Their Medium, Make Selections From The Abounding Materials Of Life, And Organize These Selections Into Works That Are Under The Control Of The Artist.... In Relation To The Inclusiveness And Literally Endless Intricacy Of Life, Art Is Arbitrary, Symbolic And Abstracted. That Is Its Value And The Source Of Its Own Kind Of Order And Coherence.

Credentialing, Not Education, Has Become The Primary Business Of North American Universities.

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.