Frederick Starr Quotations

Given that (city officials) have done nothing for the preservation cause, and indeed have done a lot of damage to it, (are they) going to seize on this as an opportunity for mass demolition, in order to build something akin to Houston?

The United States doesn't want to control this region, but it doesn't want anyone else to, either.

clean-sweep whole neighborhoods, in the name of 'health' and 'safety' and 'a great future' and all that, and end up doing what Ceausescu did to Bucharest. And then it will be gone.

The flavor and physical setting of the city's culture is locked up in the vernacular wooden houses of the 19th century, ... And I fear for them now. These are fragile buildings.