From Project for Public Spaces — Reimagining Our Streets as Places: From Transit Routes to Community Roots

In a city the street must be supreme. It is the first institution of the city. The street is a room by agreement, a community room, the walls of which belong to the donors, dedicated to the city for common use. Its ceiling is the sky. Today, streets are disinterested movements not at all belonging to the houses that front them. So you have no streets. You have roads, but you have no streets.– Louis Kahn, The Street. Read more: Project for Public Spaces | Reimagining Our Streets as Places: From Transit Routes to Community Roots