There Is No Logic That Can Be

All Through Organized History, If You Wanted Prosperity You Had To Have Cities. Cities Are Places That Attract New People With New Ideas.

It May Be That We Have Become So Feckless As A People That We No Longer Care How Things Work But Only The Kind Of Quick, Easy Outer Impression That They Get.

There Are Fashions In Building. Behind The Fashions Lie Economic And Technological Reasons, And These Fashions Exclude All But A Few Genuinely Different Possibilities In City Dwelling Construction At Any One Time.

To Approach A City, Or Even A City Neighborhood, As If It Were A Larger Architectural Problem, Capable Of Being Given Order By Converting It Into A Disciplined Work Of Art, Is To Make The Mistake Of Attempting To Substitute Art For Life. The Results Of Such Profound Confusion Between Art And Life Are Neither Life Nor Art. They Are Taxidermy.

Privately Run Jails Are A Mark Of American "reinvented Government" That Has Been Picked Up By Neoconcervatives In Canada.