"the answer instead, i suggest, is located in the city itself. a primary city function - the primary city function - ought to be the cultivation and reproduction of the city's traditional form of human association. ...the present degree of suspicion and fear that characterizes american metropolitan areas is an unacceptable basis for american life. there should be no neighborhood in america that outsiders can't visit because they feel - legitimately feel - they don't belong."
-gerald frug, from "city making: building communities without building walls"
