America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart..

Motion is a great tranquilizer..

I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing will be done to reduce carbon….

The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward….

The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities associated with farmin….

I won't deny the polemical elements in my work, but they are less in the service of attempting to reform human behavior than the delighted exercise o….

I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies..

The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of t….

Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it..

I am a sur le motif painter, always in-the-field, with a French easel that folds up into a box, with backpack straps on it. Many of the sites I haunt….

I believe our techno-zealotry will be moderated by sheer circumstance. We will do what reality compels us to do, not necessarily what our fantasies p….

It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there..

I have a new theory of history, which is certain things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. And suburbia seemed like a good idea a….

Anything goes and nothing matters..

People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down….

We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house..

When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking..

My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely ….

Consider how badly-built suburbia is. Many business buildings are not designed to outlast their tax depreciation periods, and the McHouses are made o….

We're not going to reform our moronic land-use laws, which mandate suburban sprawl one way or another. They're simply going to be ignored when it bec….

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous..