Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
New ideas must use old buildings
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.
Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.
There are two ways you encounter things in the world that are different. One is everything that comes in reinforces what you already believe and everything that you know. The other thing is that you stay flexible enough or curious enough and maybe unsure of yourself enough, or may be you are more sure of yourself - I don't know which it is - that the new things that come in keep reforming your world view.
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.
observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.
Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.
God alone created marriage. Adam slept through the entire ceremony. Eve came in late. It seems to me men are still sleeping through marriage, and women are still coming to their senses a little too late. God alone performed that ceremony, and He alone can hold it together.
The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.