Alexander Cuthbert, "Understanding Cities" (2011)

"To retain our design skills and meaningfully inform their use, we are therefore forced to look much deeper into de human condition if we wish to develop an urban design knowledge that is courageous, humane and relevant." About this book.

Alexander Cuthbert, "Understanding Cities" (2011)

"Most cities, like the rest of life, evolved gradually on the basis of trial and error, and what we have today, in every case, is the best solution to the problem, for the simple reason that speculation on other solutions, while entertaining, constitutes misguided Utopianism/essentialism and simply avoids the elementary facts of urban development." About this book.

Alexander Cuthbert. "The Form of Cities: Political Economy and Urban Design". 2006

“If we adopt a conspiratorial position to development, we assume that some other or others are actually in control of the process. If we do not, then we have to assume that global capitalism is fundamentally out of control, ...”