Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings..

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs i….

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for ….

All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields. The world is apparently fl….

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a d….

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

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….

In trading with each other cities can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another. Backward cities, or younger citie….

The primary conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are….

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other..

Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become possible, becaus….

Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. ….

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe..

poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of a….

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

What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for….

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better..

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. My new hypothesis shows why. But also in trading with each other they can't b….

I am ambivalent about London because I am so ambivalent about England in general..

It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such e….

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight….