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Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

Cities must be fun.

I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

Cities are about juxtaposition.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'