The Best Thing Is Not To Think

You Can Neither Lie To A Neighbourhood Park, Nor Reason With It. 'artist's Conceptions' And Persuasive Renderings Can Put Pictures Of Life Into Proposed Neighbourhood Parks Or Park Malls, And Verbal Rationalizations Can Conjure Up Users Who Ought To Appreciate Them, But In Real Life Only Diverse Surroundings Have The Practical Power Of Inducing A Natural, Continuing Flow Of Life And Use.

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.

It May Be Romantic To Search For The Salves Of Society's Ills In Slow-moving Rustic Surroundings, Or Among Innocent, Unspoiled Provincials, If Such Exist, But It Is A Waste Of Time.

When We Deal With Cities We Are Dealing With Life At Its Most Complex And Intense. Planners Are Guided By Principles Derived From The Behaviour And Appearance Of Suburbs, Tuberculosis Sanatoria, Fairs And Imaginary Dream Cities - From Anything But Cities Themselves.

Whenever And Wherever Societies Have Flourished And Prospered Rather Than Stagnated And Decayed, Creative And Workable Cities Have Been At The Core Of The Phenomenon. Decaying Cities, Declining Economies, And Mounting Social Troubles Travel Together. The Combination Is Not Coincidental.