Cities Never Flourish Alone. They Have To

There Is A Quality Even Meaner Than Outright Ugliness Or Disorder, And This Meaner Quality Is The Dishonest Mask Of Pretended Order, Achieved By Ignoring Or Suppressing The Real Order That Is Struggling To Exist And To Be Served.

The Salient Mystery Of Dark Ages Sets The Stage For Mass Amnesia. People Living In Vigorous Cultures Typically Treasure Those Cultures And Resist Any Threat To Them. How And Why Can A People So Totally Discard A Formerly Vital Culture That It Becomes Vitally Lost?

Neighborhood Is A Word That Has Come To Sound Like A Valentine. As A Sentimental Concept, 'neighborhood' Is Harmful To City Planning. It Leads To Attempts At Warping City Life Into Imitations Of Town Or Suburban Life. Sentimentality Plays With Sweet Intentions In Place Of Good Sense.

Detroit Is Largely Composed, Today, Of Seemingly Endless Square Miles Of Low-density Failure.

New Ideas Must Use Old Buildings