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 wou….

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable..

Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independ….

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder..

While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear fa….

City diversity represents accident and chaos..

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice..

One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if they were the same kind of creatur….

New ideas must use old buildings.

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….

Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure..

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expa….

There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we….

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody..

In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details..

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end..

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic esthetic limitation on what c….

We expect too much of new #‎ buildings , and too little of ourselves..

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other..

By the end of the book, it is quite different than the way you thought it would be when you started the book - both in form and what it contains and ….

[If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would becom….