The picket fence There was a fence with spaces you could look through if you wanted to. An architect who saw this thing stood there one summer evening. Took out the spaces with great care and built a castle in the air. The fence was utterly dumbfounded, each post stood there with nothing round it. Christian Morgenstern, The Art of Looking Sideways www.andrew.cmu.edu spacearchitectureabsurdity
A city cannot be a work of art There is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities: A city cannot be a work of art. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities The order of life artcities