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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.
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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no…
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There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that…
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Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet…
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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.…
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Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
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I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary…
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Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities…
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Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core…
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In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
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As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora…
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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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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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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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Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that…
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If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological…
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