"Some people looks at the way things are, and wonder, why? But some look at
the way things could be and wonder, why not?" Robert Kennedy
"Sprawl is now a bread-and-butter issue, like crime" Jan Schaffer, Pew Center for Civic Journalism
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Buckminster Fuller
"Here at the end of the century, we are, I think, finally beginning to understand how we would like to live and how
architecture can serve us best. Archiotects like Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and their colleagues have
already constructed a gentle model upon which our near and-far-distant futures might reasonably be built, disciplining the automobile and shaping our towns and cities as plaes for people at all economic levels to live. That model, first tried at Seaside, in Florida, is based on the scale of the neighborhood; its major elements are the grid streets, squares, boulevards and parks of traditional American city planning,
which modernists had disasterously cast aside,. Its proponents call it New Urbanism, but it is in fact a renewal of ends and means as old as the city itself." Vincent Scully, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Yale University
"The accumulation of property and its security to individuals in every society
must be an effect of the protection afforded to it by the joint strength of
the society in the execution of its laws. Private property therefore is a
creature of society, and is subject ot the calls of that society, whenever
its necessities shall require it, even to its last farthing; its contributions
therefore to the public exigencies are not to be considered as conferring a
benefit to the public, entitling the contributors to the distinctions of
honour and power, but as the return of an obligation previously received, or
the payment of a just debt. The important ends of civil society, and the
personal securities of life and liberty, these remain the same in every
member of the society; and the poorest continue to have an equal claim to
them with the most opulent, whatever difference time, chance, or industry
may occasion in their circumstances. On these considerations I am sorry to
see...a disposition among some of our people to commence an aristocracy by
giving the rich a predominancy in government." Benjamin Franklin
