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But Now Sustainability Is Such A Political Category That It's Getting More And More Difficult To Think About It In A Serious Way. Sustainability Has Become An Ornament.

Miami Beach Is A Completely Interesting Hybrid Because It Is, On The One Hand, A Resort And, On The Other Hand, A Real City. This Condition Of City And Water On Two Sides I Think Is Really Amazing. And In The Heart Of That City, It Has Put An Enormous Convention Center, An Enormous Physical Presence.

At That Time [90th In Lagos], If You Drove Through The City, You Drove Through A Foreground That Always Seemed To Be Incredibly Dramatic And Incredibly Agonised - Smoking, Burning, Incredible Compression. In The First Year We Stayed On The Ground And Went Everywhere. But Then In Order To Discover Whether This Was The Whole Story, We Rented A Helicopter. And We Began To Understand That This Is Not Chaos But A Highly Modern System That Had Been Abandoned, Then At Some Point Went Into Reversal, Then Slowly Came Out Of It.

Manhattan Has No Choice But The Skyward Extrusion Of The Grid Itself; Only The Skyscraper Offers Business The Wide-open Spaces Of A Man-made Wild West, A Frontier In The Sky.

Our Society Can No Longer Tolerate Ugliness. You See That In Cars, Sofas And Women. [but] Ugliness Also Has A Right To Exist.