Old Ideas Can Sometimes Use New Buildings.

Everyone Is Aware That Tremendous Numbers Of People Concentrate In City Downtowns And That, If They Did Not, There Would Be No Downtown To Amount To Anything--certainly Not One With Much Downtown Diversity.

While You Are Looking, You Might As Well Also Listen, Linger And Think About What You See.

Innovating Economies Expand And Develop. Economies That Do Not Add New Kinds Of Goods And Services, But Continue Only To Repeat Old Work, Do Not Expand Much Nor Do They, By Definition, Develop.

This Is Something Everyone Knows: A Well-used City Street Is Apt To Be A Safe Street. A Deserted City Street Is Apt To Be Unsafe.

To Approach A City, Or Even A City Neighborhood, As If It Were A Larger Architectural Problem, Capable Of Being Given Order By Converting It Into A Disciplined Work Of Art, Is To Make The Mistake Of Attempting To Substitute Art For Life. The Results Of Such Profound Confusion Between Art And Life Are Neither Life Nor Art. They Are Taxidermy.