Some Of The Large [municipalities] In Quebec

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.

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.

We've Got A [canadian] Prime Minister Who Seems To Be Intent On Destroying Our Health System And Education System. But I Have Gotten A Thicker Skin. I Can Get Angry About These Things Without Feeling Like Vomiting, If You Know What I Mean.

There Are Fashions In Building. Behind The Fashions Lie Economic And Technological Reasons, And These Fashions Exclude All But A Few Genuinely Different Possibilities In City Dwelling Construction At Any One Time.

There Is A Quality Even Meaner Than Outright Ugliness Or Disorder, And This Meaner Quality Is The Dishonest Mask Of Pretended Order, Achieved By Ignoring Or Suppressing The Real Order That Is Struggling To Exist And To Be Served.