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• The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
• Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no…
• There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that…
• Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet…
• Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.…
• Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
• I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary…
• Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities…
• Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core…
• In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
• As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora…
• Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly…

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