Sublime

New Haven’s efforts to replace old neighborhoods with brutally modern architecture received national attention, and won many design awards, but by the late 1960s they had largely failed because they concentrated poverty, isolated residents

From the beginning the balance between civilization and nature has been essential to meeting both our spiritual and practical needs.

The goal of this book is to knit these threads—our technical and social potential and the generative power of nature—back together, toward a higher purpose for cities.

Rose. Thorn. Bud.

The fourth quality of a well-tempered city is community—social networks made of well-tempered people.

And kept on designing and building, working with others to create South Mountain Company.

make practical and profitable buildings