There Is No New World That You

Automobiles Are Often Conveniently Tagged As The Villains Responsible For The Ills Of Cities And The Disappointments And Futilities Of City Planning. But The Destructive Effect Of Automobiles Are Much Less A Cause Than A Symptom Of Our Incompetence At City Building.

Let's See In Those Indictments You Can't Level At Sweden, They Never Tried To Ban The Constitution Or Undermine The Settlement That They Wanted. Well You Can't Say That Of Canada. Any Indication Of Revolt On The Part Of Quebec Was Either Bought Off, With A Good Deal Of Corruption.

I Think That May Be The Biggest Difference Between Americans And People Elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians Know That There Are Places Just As Real As Canada. It's A Self-centeredness That's A Very Strange Thing.

Dull, Inert Cities, It Is True, Do Contain The Seeds Of Their Own Destruction And Little Else. But Lively, Diverse, Intense Cities Contain The Seeds Of Their Own Regeneration, With Energy Enough To Carry Over For Problems And Needs Outside Themselves.

[ René Lévesque] Didn't Understand Why Things Do Collapse. It's Usually A Very Banal Reason Why Things Do Collapse. It's Not A Grand Reason, Why They Collapse Economically, At Least In The West.