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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'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

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

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

The City gets more and more beautiful every time I come home.

Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most of us care to imagine. Cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable.