Today Barbarism Has Taken Over Many City

Cities Never Flourish Alone. They Have To Be Trading With Other Cities. My New Hypothesis Shows Why. But Also In Trading With Each Other They Can't Be In Too Different Stages Of Development, And They Can't Copy One Another.

We've Got A [canadian] Prime Minister Who Seems To Be Intent On Destroying Our Health System And Education System. But I Have Gotten A Thicker Skin. I Can Get Angry About These Things Without Feeling Like Vomiting, If You Know What I Mean.

A Region Is An Area Safely Larger Than The Last One To Whose Problems We Found No Solution.

To Approach A City, Or Even A City Neighborhood, As If It Were A Larger Architectural Problem, Capable Of Being Given Order By Converting It Into A Disciplined Work Of Art, Is To Make The Mistake Of Attempting To Substitute Art For Life. The Results Of Such Profound Confusion Between Art And Life Are Neither Life Nor Art. They Are Taxidermy.

When We Deal With Cities We Are Dealing With Life At Its Most Complex And Intense. Because This Is So, There Is A Basic Esthetic Limitation On What Can Be Done With Cities: A City Cannot Be A Work Of Art.