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

...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….

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 ….

I don't think of the New Urbanism as an economic or political train wreck. I think of it as one of these great generational upheavals that's coming..

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

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….

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

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

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

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

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches..

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

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. ….

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

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..

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

I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have..

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….

The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful - just a shop window displa….

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

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..