... I just hate the way architects and city planners and everyone else responsible for urban life seems to have lost sight of what cities are for. They are for people. That seems obvious enough, but for almost half a century we have been building cities that are for almost anything else; for cars,for business, for developers, for people with money and bold visions who refuse to see cities from ground level, as places in which people must live and function and get around.
- Bill Bryson (1998) Neither here nor there (Travels in Europe), pp 61-62.