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Design is people.
New ideas must use old buildings
New ideas often need old buildings.
Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.
City diversity represents accident and chaos.
The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.
Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?
In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.
Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.
In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
You don't get new products and services out of sameness.
It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.
There is no new world that you make without the old world.
Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.
We expect too much of new # buildings , and too little of ourselves.
Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America.
Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.
You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.
Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.
I am not any hate-America person. I really came here for positive reasons.
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
I am ambivalent about London because I am so ambivalent about England in general.
I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.
Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.
While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.
This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.
A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.
Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.
Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.
Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.
I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have.
But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.
People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.
Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.
People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.
By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.
observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.
People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.
The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.
Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.
Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.
Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in Canada.
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.
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.