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.

People want to know whether a place is a credible first-world city. What they found in New Orleans was that underneath the gloss and facade of a first-world tourist attraction was a third-world reality. It will take a lot of work to erase that view.

[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.

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.