The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral ...and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for reall...y new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »