Quote of the day

"The contrast between the conditions of the city of St. Louis and its vast suburbs is stark, and stunning."
-Ray Suarez, The Old Neighborhood (1999).

Quote of the Day

"There are no city plans for the South Bronx, for North St. Louis, or parts of the South Side of Chicago. There are no plans because cities don't talk much about the places they aren't sure they can do anything for."
-Norman Krumholz (Professor at Cleveland State University), quoted in The Old Neighborhood, Ray Suarez, 1999.

Quote of the Day

"The argument here is not against the suburb, but against excessive suburban sprawl; not against dispersed living, but against aimlessness. The challenge is to make the metropolitan area a cohesive and efficient fabric, with a central core that will serve as a wellspring of urban nourishment and enlightenment."
-George M. Smerk, Urban Transportation: The Federal Role (1965).

Beautiful House of the Day

(Dubuque, IA)

Quote of the day

"Since at least the founding of the Republic we have been concealing failure from ourselves with newness."
-Sam Bass Warner, Jr., The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City (1972).

Quote of the Day

"There is nothing economically or socially inevitable about either the decay of old cities or the fresh-minted decadence of the new unurban urbanization. On the contrary, no other aspect of our economy and society has been more purposefully manipulated for a full quarter of a century to achieve precisely what we are getting. Extraordinary governmental financial incentives have been required to achieve this degree of monotony, sterility and vulgarity. Decades of preaching, writing and exhorting by experts have gone into convincing us and our legislators that mush like this must be good for us, as long as it comes bedded with grass."
-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)

Beautiful House of the Day

(New Orleans, LA)