Part 4: Different Tactics
Part 22: The kind of problem a city is
Chapter 22, p 454
In the case of understanding cities, I think the most important habits of thought are these:
(1) to think about processes
(2) to work inductively, reasoning from particulars to the general, rather than the reverse
and (3) to seek for ‘unaverage’ clues involving very small quantities, which revel the way larger and more ‘average’ quantities are operating
Chapter 22, p 461
Vital cities have marvelous innate abilities for understanding, communicating, contriving, and inventing what is required to combat their difficulties.
