The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.
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Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.
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I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a 'time out' from technological progress as we know it.
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I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.
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It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to run the American suburbs. And we're just not going to be able to run them. You know, it's just unfortunate, it's tragic, but it's the truth.
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If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.
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