Detroit Is Largely Composed, Today, Of Seemingly

Beneficent Spirals, Operating By Benign Feedback, Mean That Everything Needful Is Not Required At Once: Each Individual Improvement Is Beneficial For The Whole

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 Floating In Oil Fields.

Virtually All Ideologues, Of Any Variety, Are Fearful And Insecure, Which Is Why They Are Drawn To Ideologies That Promise Prefabricated Answers For All Circumstances.

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 They Give. If So, There Is Little Hope For Our Cities Or Probably For Much Else In Our Society. But I Do Not Think This Is So.

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.