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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

The city of the future is a city that cares about its citizens and integrates its citizens.

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

Besides infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity in housing and urbanisation of cities - not only building new ones, but also renewing the infrastructure of old cities to make them more livable. This provides tremendous scope for large investments to fuel growth.

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.

Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.

Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.