#cityquote

A smarter way to build cities might be for architects and urban planners to have psychologists and ethnographers on the team.

I have never yet seen a smart-home design that would make a two-year-old happier and healthier. They're not about "smartness," they are frozen digital reifications of the power relationships that are already there.

You can’t just plug an urban scheme into a grid and wait for results. You need community, solidarity and civic virtue.

Cities are not really agglomerations of people; they’re agglomerations of connections between people.

I think the reason that the audience got so into it is that everyone intuitively knows the rules of the game when it comes to cities.