Old Ideas Can Sometimes Use New Buildings.

I Still Have A Lot Of Family In America. I Still Have A Lot Of Friends There. There Is A Lot That I Admire There Very Much. When I Find America Getting Too Much Criticized Outside America, I Want To Tell Them How Many Things Are Good About It.

Being Human Is Itself Difficult, And Therefore All Kinds Of Settlements (except Dream Cities) Have Problems. Big Cities Have Difficulties In Abundance, Because They Have People In Abundance.

Today Barbarism Has Taken Over Many City Streets, Or People Fear It Has, Which Comes To Much The Same Thing In The End.

...frequent Streets And Short Blocks Are Valuable Because Of The Fabric Of Intricate Cross-use That They Permit Among The Users Of A City Neighbouhood.

Cities Need Old Buildings So Badly It Is Probably Impossible For Vigorous Streets And Districts To Grow Without Them.... For Really New Ideas Of Any Kind--no Matter How Ultimately Profitable Or Otherwise Successful Some Of Them Might Prove To Be--there Is No Leeway For Such Chancy Trial, Error And Experimentation In The High-overhead Economy Of New Construction. Old Ideas Can Sometimes Use New Buildings. New Ideas Must Use Old Buildings.