Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.

I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.

Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.