We Expect Too Much Of New #‎

Everyone Is Aware That Tremendous Numbers Of People Concentrate In City Downtowns And That, If They Did Not, There Would Be No Downtown To Amount To Anything--certainly Not One With Much Downtown Diversity.

As In The Pseudoscience Of Bloodletting, Just So In The Pseudoscience Of City Rebuilding And Planning, Years Of Learning And A Plethora Of Subtle And Complicated Dogma Have Arisen On A Foundation Of Nonsense.

Streets And Their Sidewalks-the Main Public Places Of A City-are Its Most Vital Organs.

I Have Been Dwelling Upon Downtowns. This Is Not Because Mixtures Of Primary Uses Are Unneeded Elsewhere In Cities. On The Contrary They Are Needed, And The Success Of Mixtures Downtown (on In The Most Intensive Portions Of Cities, Whatever They Are Called) Is Related To The Mixture Possible In Other Part Of Cities.

Empires Want [cities] Only To Trade With The Empire, Which Doesn't Help Them At All. It's Just A Way Of Exploiting Them.