Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core o….

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.….

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 ….

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans..

Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation..

I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a book. I have to stick to it and co….

I basically don't think that the way we do things is that dependent on one resource, such as oil. There can be different kinds of engines for cars. I….

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 ever….

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums th….

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see..

I still have a lot of family in America. I still have a lot of friends there. There is a lot that I admire there very much. When I find America getti….

The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. T….

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas..

You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into propo….

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by igno….

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and a….

Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is ….

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams..

In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity..

Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a p….

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order..