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….

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..

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….

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

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 ….

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 ….

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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

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

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….

Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past..

Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America..