The Good Is Not A Category That

It Is Not Possible To Live In This Age If You Don't Have A Sense Of Many Contradictory Forces.

The City Is An Addictive Machine From Which There Is No Escape

Manhattan Is An Accumulation Of Possible Disasters That Never Happen.

Most Old Cities Are Now Sclerotic Machines That Dispense Known Qualities In Ever-greater Quantities, Instead Of Laboratories Of The Uncertain. Only The Skyscraper Offers Business The Wide-open Spaces Of A Man-made Wild West, A Frontier In The Sky.

When Air Conditioning, Escalators, And Advertising Appeared, Shopping Expanded Its Scale, But Also Limited Its Spontaneity. And It Became Much More Predictable, Almost Scientific. What Had Once Been The Most Surprising Became The Most Manipulated.