It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that t….

The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of the shopping center [as] a valid kind of downt….

New ideas must use old buildings.

Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate..

People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong..

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities..

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities..

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..

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so..

Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes..

There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely differ….

There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things..

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically..

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice..

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically)….

Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new ideas of any ….

There is no new world that you make without the old world..

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs..

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 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..

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….