The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.
It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
Cities are about juxtaposition.