Erosion Of Cities Or Attrition Of Automobiles?

In Trading With Each Other Cities Can't Be In Too Different Stages Of Development, And They Can't Copy One Another. Backward Cities, Or Younger Cities, Or Newly Forming Cities In Supply Regions, Have To Develop To A Great Extent On One Another's Shoulders. This Is One Of The Terrible Things About Empires. Empires Want Them Only To Trade With The Empire, Which Doesn't Help Them At All. It's Just A Way Of Exploiting Them.

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.

I Don't Think That You Can Dispose Of The Constructive And Inventive Things That America Is Doing - And Say, "oh We Aren't Doing Anything Anymore And We Are Living Off Of What The Poor Chinese Do." It Is More Complicated Than That. There Is The Example Of Detroit Which Was Once A Very Prosperous And Diverse City. And Look What Happened When It Just Specialized On Automobiles. Look At Manchester When It Specialized In Those Dark Satanic Mills, When It Specialized In Textiles. It Was Supposed To Be The City Of The Future.

I Think That Things Are Going To Change Just Because People Get Too Damn Bored With What They Have.

I Don't Think Of The New Urbanism As An Economic Or Political Train Wreck. I Think Of It As One Of These Great Generational Upheavals That's Coming.