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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

No state legislature ever built a great university.

Rome was not built in one day.

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

I don't care much for the cities.