The Point Of Cities Is Multiplicity Of

Sentimentality About Nature Denatures Everything It Touches.

My Mother Used To Say When We Were Children, 'when A Boy Gets A Stick In His Hand, His Brains Run Out The Other End Of It.' Power Is A Stick In The Hand, And I Have Never Heard Of Anybody Who Wielded A Very Big Stick Of Power Whose Brains Did Not Run Out The Other End. As A Nation, Our Brains Are Running Out The Other End Of Our Power Right Now.

Being Human Is Itself Difficult, And Therefore All Kinds Of Settlements (except Dream Cities) Have Problems. Big Cities Have Difficulties In Abundance, Because They Have People In Abundance.

People Must Take A Modicum Of Public Responsibility For Each Other Even If They Have No Ties To Each Other.

Cities Are An Immense Laboratory Of Trial And Error, Failure And Success, In City Building And City Design.