You Can't Rely On Bringing People Downtown,

Lowly, Unpurposeful And Random As They May Appear, Sidewalk Contacts Are The Small Change From Which A City's Wealth Of Public Life May Grow.

But Look What We Have Built ... This Is Not The Rebuilding Of Cities. This Is The Sacking Of Cities.

There Were Lots Of Programs Over The Course Of The Two Referendums And The General Tenor Of Them Was That If Quebec Were To Separate, Then Canada Would Disintegrate.

As In The Pseudoscience Of Bloodletting, Just So In The Pseudoscience Of City Rebuilding And Planning, Years Of Learning And A Plethora Of Subtle And Complicated Dogma Have Arisen On A Foundation Of Nonsense.

There Are Two Ways You Encounter Things In The World That Are Different. One Is Everything That Comes In Reinforces What You Already Believe And Everything That You Know. The Other Thing Is That You Stay Flexible Enough Or Curious Enough And Maybe Unsure Of Yourself Enough, Or May Be You Are More Sure Of Yourself - I Don't Know Which It Is - That The New Things That Come In Keep Reforming Your World View.