“It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible, ... They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.”
“HOrrible. The most horrible sound on earth. The sound of death and torture and the agonies of a burning hell," Lisle said. "Damn them. It's bagpipes.”
“. . . Birmingham City Council was playing third time lucky with the design of the city's celebrated Victoria Square . . .”
“Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.”
“It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.”
“She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating.”