Ray Oldenburg Quote

From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth hunting wild pig with the Nandi, later training racehorses for a living...

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.And everything awful used to be something good.

The development of an informal public life depends people finding and enjoying one another outside the cash nexus.

The charm of a city, now we come to it, is not unlike the charm of flowers. It partly depends on seeing time creep across it. Charm needs to be fleeting. Nothing could be less palatable than a museum-...