- Nowhere else in New York offers more opportunity to create something out of nothing than Astor Place.

- We hope that Paris corrects its large-scale transgressions and turns to its diverse neighborhoods for direction.

- For Paris to survive as a livable city, sanity must be restored to traffic management along main thoroughfares and around major focal points.

- A great city shapes itself around its public buildings, as the spaces around those buildings become the city's central gathering places.

- Paris probably has the best parks of any city in the world. But their success is not simply a matter of variety or quantity, and not all parks are well-used. The real question is: "Why are some parks in Paris so popular, while others are not?"

