There Is No Logic That Can Be

That The Sight Of People Attracts Still Other People, Is Something That City Planners And City Architectural Designers Seem To Find Incomprehensible. They Operate On The Premise That City People Seek The Sight Of Emptiness, Obvious Order And Quiet. Nothing Could Be Less True. The Presences Of Great Numbers Of People Gathered Together In Cities Should Not Only Be Frankly Accepted As A Physical Fact... They Should Also Be Enjoyed As An Asset And Their Presence Celebrated.

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

There Are Dangers In Sentimentalizing Nature. Most Sentimental Ideas Imply, At Bottom, A Deep If Unacknowledged Disrespect. It Is No Accident That We Americans, Probably The World's Champion Sentimentalizers About Nature, Are At One And The Same Time Probably The World's Most Voracious And Disrespectful Destroyers Of Wild And Rural Countryside.

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.

Privately Run Jails Are A Mark Of American "reinvented Government" That Has Been Picked Up By Neoconcervatives In Canada.