“If you think about Disneyland and think of its performance in relationship to its purpose – its meaning to people more than its meaning to the process of development – you will find it the outstanding piece of urban design in the United States. It took an area of activity – the amusement park – and lifted it to a standard so high in its performance, in its respect for people, in its functioning for people, that it really became a brand-new thing. It fulfills the function that it set out to accomplish unself-consciously, usefully and profitably. ”

“Billboard architecture was not in Jim Rouse’s scriptures. As the developer-saint and the chief sponsor of what can be considered the Architecture of Inclusion, he was not, at the end-game of his career, going to be a co-conspirator to turning away from the very fabric of the city he worked so hard to reintegrate with commercial enterprise: neither with the blankness of a berm nor with a hodge-podge of over-stuffed design gimmicks.”