By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange..

Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have ….

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

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education..

Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate..

In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the….

The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say..

New ideas often need old buildings..

Everybody's got a worldview, whether they know they have it or they don't. They might even get it when they are little tiny kids. Suppose they get it….

Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the con….

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory..

We've got a [Canadian] prime minister who seems to be intent on destroying our health system and education system. But I have gotten a thicker skin. ….

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches..

I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just as rea….

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design..

...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhoo….

Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for….

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….

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..