[But the Orange Line] doesn't go anywhere you would want it to go, ... It's a tour of the industrial bowels of the Valley. And there's no place to stop to get a cup of coffee.

Cities will themselves to be great. It's an underappreciated factor.

[Add to the list of recovery factors an intangible: spirit.] Cities will themselves to be great, ... It's an underappreciated factor.

You now have options in suburbia that never existed before. If you're nomadic in the tech world, you're really moving from one suburb to another.

There's always going to be a Mardi Gras -- at least, a lot of Americans hope there will always be, ... But that doesn't mean that has to be the only reason for your economic existence.

The City: A Global History.